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 1Eb6SC-0004Oe-8P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 01:14:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAD1Dm3w008800; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 01:13:48 GMT Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.194]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAD1A1xc008815 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 01:10:02 GMT Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s6so1279995wxc for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 17:10:01 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=AVuwGoGMa5klX/IMDyulqjrcJYDCWwlRgw/l0eUBtJS2U0ScwZUtIgA40rQ52/U0lwv0iVGuJO92dG2Brxix/S+pvZoHCMNfMnV4PqNfhv0JXq1K1vR8N4PeWKzBdTMXXkpJyxJzfmWJiQftDjfjXdpTckh2EDWS8pA7e9Gmfpc= Received: by 10.70.39.4 with SMTP id m4mr418342wxm; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 17:10:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.15.20 with HTTP; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 17:10:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 21:10:01 -0400 From: Grimaldy Soto To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NTFS resizing In-Reply-To: <43768D8C.70404@comcast.net> 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 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_1178_28032687.1131844201251" References: <43768D8C.70404@comcast.net> X-Archives-Salt: 3d479a5f-3090-4fc6-8918-57806efddaa4 X-Archives-Hash: 20165d978f7c848efc3fb009b795a7a6 ------=_Part_1178_28032687.1131844201251 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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- ------=_Part_1178_28032687.1131844201251 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I suposed that if the partition is in use it's because is the main partitio= n, if not you can use the /x option for chkdsk if will force a dismount, an= yway why you no resize the partition with a partition manager like partitio= n 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 Gent= oo on a new laptop. As
recommended by countless sources all over the Internet, I am using
K= noppix & Qtparted for resizing. However, QTParted complains about
ac= counting errors in the NTFS filesystem (yes, I know that's redundant).
After a little bit of Google searching, I discovered I needed to use
chk= dsk on Windows with the /f switch to fix the errors. Easy. Of course,
ch= kdsk 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
pro= blem that chkdsk never actually runs at start up. No bueno. Any
tricks t= o con it into working?

-Pingveno

P.S. This is a Thinkpad T43

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which, by its nature, music is of all arts the most receptive.&q= uot;
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