[Bug 222931] Re: Gparted can't resize NTFS

[Phillip Susi]

** Changed in: gparted (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Invalid

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Title:
  Gparted can't resize NTFS

Status in “gparted” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gparted

  Not sure how to best describe this, but confirmed it with several
  recent versions of gparted, including the one inside the live Hardy
  CD, two bootable gparted CDs, and a Mandriva live CD. The gparted
  program runs normally, but the NTFS partition cannot be resized. There
  is a yellow triangle with an exclamation point, and the information
  says that BadClust could not be decompressed, that the contents are
  unreadable, and that some operations are not available, obviously
  including the resizing operation. The partition can be mounted, and I
  can wander around inside the data files, but of course that locks the
  partition in gparted, and it still can't be resized. Unmounting it
  also works, but then it goes back to the yellow triangle state...

  Not sure how much background of what kind is needed, but here goes:
  The machine in question is a Sharp PC-WA70-L. I've been running Ubuntu
  in the other partition for about a year. The machine ships with the
  main NTFS partition (about 80 GB), a smaller partition that I
  converted for Ubuntu (about 11 GB), and a recovery partition (about 6
  GB), so I didn't need to use gparted before this. However, now I want
  to split off a fresh partition and try Hardy from scratch there.
  Ubuntu has never run that well on the machine, actually, and based on
  the live CD tests, it already seems pretty certain that at least one
  of the problems remains unsolved.

  As usual, I'll be glad to do a certain amount of diagnostic work, but
  I don't want to make a career out of it...

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