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 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 > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- "We must agree that the beauty of a work of art will always remain a mystery, in other words, we can never be absolutely sure 'how it's made.' We must at all costs preserve this magic which is peculiar to music and to which, by its nature, music is of all arts the most receptive." -Claude Debussy-