[Bug 77302] Re: ntfsresize cannot shrink XP without leaving ~300MB of wasted disk; gparted unhelpful.

Colin Watson cjwatson at canonical.com
Fri Mar 23 15:31:52 UTC 2007


(Using ntfscluster and looking for the number of sectors of free space
is clearly inaccurate - it needs to be rounded up to clusters, and
ntfsresize reserves a cluster for the backup boot sector and (probably
more importantly) considers fragmentation.)

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ntfsresize cannot shrink XP without leaving ~300MB of wasted disk; gparted unhelpful. 
https://launchpad.net/bugs/77302




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