From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EbB18-0002tD-VQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 06:07:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAD66A1X001409; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 06:06:10 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAD62Euw029943 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 06:02:14 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.198.39] helo=rwcrmhc12.comcast.net) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EbAwQ-0004w3-F5 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 06:02:14 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (c-67-160-130-118.hsd1.wa.comcast.net[67.160.130.118]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2005111306021301500349jke>; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 06:02:13 +0000 Message-ID: <4376D6DB.2030604@comcast.net> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 22:02:03 -0800 From: Pingveno User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051025) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: NTFS resizing References: <43768D8C.70404@comcast.net> <4376AF59.2040909@comcast.net> <200511131028.35848.abhay.ilugd@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200511131028.35848.abhay.ilugd@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 729135b7-58f2-4353-88aa-1b303130e72d X-Archives-Hash: 8cc08c34c8bc855793e113242ec899da abhay wrote: > On Sunday 13 Nov 2005 8:43 am, Pingveno wrote: >> Yeah, this is the main partition. According to the web sites I have >> read, there should be no problem with what I'm doing, even with this >> being the boot partition. >> >> Here's the message I get when I run "chkdsk /f": >> >> The type of the file system is NTFS. >> Cannot lock current drive. >> >> Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another >> process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be >> checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N) Y >> >> This volume will be checked the next time the system restarts. >> >> >> Yet when I restart, there is no unusual lag in the start up (which would >> be necessary to scan an entire hard drive). I also continue getting the >> message, upon running chkdsk without /f, that I need to do chkdsk /f. >> Weird. >> >> -Pingveno > Looks like some how dirty bit setting has been disabled on your drive which is > essential for running chkdsk at boot time. Try running fsutil to query/set > the dirty bit on your drive. To read more about fsutil head here > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/ServerHelp/740cb38b-66dc-41e2-9f0b-7f2816c7c2ca.mspx > > Abhay Strange. Even when I set the dirty bit and restart, no check was done. I think it's time to call up IBM. Maybe one of their wonderful contraptions is stopping chkdsk at startup >_< -Pingveno -Pingveno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list