Hello everyone!

I faced an issue using ntfsresize --info to estimate minimum fs size 
before resize.
The environment is as following: we are a hypervisor running a windows VM.
We want a maximum VM uptime, while optimizing host disk space usage.

So we want to find out how much space we can free from VM disk image,
and if there's a considerable amount of space for freeing,
we stop VM and shrink its disk image.

The problem is that VM may do some FS operations, so that $MFT and $Bitmap
cluster usage mismatch.  In that case, ntfsresize --info (even with -ff) 
reports errors
and refuses to display minimum fs size. I guess whether it is possible to
add a switch to ntfsresize enabling it to display (approximate) minimum 
size
even if cluster mismatch is found (e.g. according to $MFT data).

Thanks in advance!

-- 
Your sincerely,
Maxim Perevedentsev


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