Re: [gentoo-user] NTFS resizing

[Grimaldy Soto <nehemoth@gmail.com>]

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I suposed that if the partition is in use it's because is the main
partition, if not you can use the /x option for chkdsk if will force a
dismount, anyway why you no resize the partition with a partition manager
like partition magic.

Its better and faster and course lets dangerous that making inside from
linux.

On 11/12/05, Pingveno <pingveno@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to resize an NTFS partition to fit Gentoo on a new laptop. As
> recommended by countless sources all over the Internet, I am using
> Knoppix & Qtparted for resizing. However, QTParted complains about
> accounting errors in the NTFS filesystem (yes, I know that's redundant).
> After a little bit of Google searching, I discovered I needed to use
> chkdsk on Windows with the /f switch to fix the errors. Easy. Of course,
> chkdsk alerted me that it can't modify a running NTFS system. Okay, so I
> do what it recommends to me: let the checking be run after a reboot.
>
> None of this is exactly extraordinary. However, there is the slight
> problem that chkdsk never actually runs at start up. No bueno. Any
> tricks to con it into working?
>
> -Pingveno
>
> P.S. This is a Thinkpad T43
>
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