Bug#397364: [ntfs-3g-devel] ntfs-3g-0.20070116-BETA

2007-01-30 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This effects many other distributions and people often ask what's happening. Adam Cecile, Mertens Florent and me offered to help the Debian maintainer, and Flo sent an LSB compliant FUSE init file but the maintainer doesn't reply repeated

Bug#397364: ntfs-3g-0.20070116-BETA

2007-01-16 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
Hi, On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was a good idea to support older fuse kernel modules, but it still requires new fuse user space tools to compile. Is it possible to compile/use with fuse 2.5.3 too? Currently there is a check for 2.6.0+ in the configure script. Correct.

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing

2006-12-03 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, David [iso-8859-15] Martínez Moreno wrote: El domingo, 3 de diciembre de 2006 11:36, Anton Altaparmakov escribió: Thank you very much, guys. What should we do know, apply the two-line patch from Szaka to 1.13.1, wait for 1.14, backport any other change...?

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing

2006-12-03 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: Sorry I didn't explain myself better. My patch was only for Vista. Disagree. Your patch is fine for all NTFS volumes. There is no need to set the mounted on NT4 bit on any volume during what

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing

2006-12-03 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
Hi Andree, On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Andree Leidenfrost wrote: I've tested and all looks well! When booting into Vista after a resize, chkdsk is started and after another reboot the system starts as usual. You are a star Thanks for the testing but I object the last sentence because I think

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing

2006-12-02 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: Apparently Vista refuses to boot if an NTFS volume was mounted on NT4 earlier. This is also what ntfsresize lied to trick Windows to be compatible with itself. Could you please try the below patch against ntfsprogs 1.13.1 that the theory

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing

2006-12-02 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
El sábado, 2 de diciembre de 2006 20:44, Frans Pop escribió: On Saturday 02 December 2006 14:36, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: I put a statically linked version here to ease the testing. http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ntfsresize-1.13.1.1.tgz This version makes Vista happy too. After

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing

2006-12-01 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
Hi, Apparently Vista refuses to boot if an NTFS volume was mounted on NT4 earlier. This is also what ntfsresize lied to trick Windows to be compatible with itself. Could you please try the below patch against ntfsprogs 1.13.1 that the theory is correct? Thank you. Szaka ---

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing

2006-11-30 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: Szaka wrote: pointless to empty journal if clean... It is NOT pointless to empty. It depends on how journaling works, on which we disagree. It's useless to explain the consequences if you're right because I'm obviously aware of it. You

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing

2006-11-30 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: I read the code and it does it. I do not believe in sniffing as you put it. That is useless as you never know what/why the software is doing something. The code itself shows exactly what happens. I prefer to stick with that. I prefer

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing

2006-11-30 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: I have not the faintest idea what was wrong before. [...] to my surprise it now made Vista work. Why - no idea, and I could not care less. So, you have no idea of - what was wrong before - why ntfsresize works on your Vista now

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing

2006-11-30 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: I understand the impact 100% which is why my patch is so big. It had to touch a lot of utilities to adapt for the changed libntfs behaviour. The impact to resizing any kind of NTFS. There are many special cases and ntfsresize works quite

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] was: Bug#379628: CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing

2006-11-29 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: I didn't have time to check the patches yet but wasn't the Vista problem due to a bug in libntfs and not because of ntfsresize? The problem is that with my first patch which does not turn

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing

2006-11-29 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: Thank you for persisting with this. Yes, thank you Frans and Andree for your help. We definitely found something. I have now looked at the code and you are right it does not do the same thing. This is because when Yura ported my $LogFile

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing

2006-11-28 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: Ok, I just committed some more fixes to ntfsresize. It never actually unmounted the volume, just exited which was very rude of it! It's intentionally not umounted. Ntfsresize __rewrites__ NTFS and it's dangerous to umount because that could

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing

2006-11-28 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: It's intentionally not umounted. Ntfsresize __rewrites__ NTFS and it's dangerous to umount because that could interfer, corrupt or destroy the resized, consistent NTFS. Do you not keep the ntfs_volume of the mount consistent with your

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] was: Bug#379628: CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing

2006-11-28 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 13:08 +0100, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: There are two NTFS during resizing. The original and the resized. When the resizing is over then the latter is consistent and the old one is irrelevant. ntfsresize doesn't work

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] was: Bug#379628: CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing

2006-11-28 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 14:20 +0100, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: relocate_inodes(), relocate_inode(), especially the $MFT part. There is a strict order in what and when is relocated. At some point ntfs_volume is mostly used only for reading

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing

2006-11-26 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 26 November 2006 02:13, you wrote: Could you please also test that whether Vista boots if you remove /pagefile.sys after ntfsresize? You can use ntfs-3g for this, it's in Debian unstable. Usage: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/index.html#usage Or

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: Bug#379628: CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing

2006-11-25 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Frans Pop wrote: I've stopped after the Win2k chkdsk as that turned out to be sufficient to make Vista boot again, so running the Vista repair is unnecessary! The md5sum check after running chkdsk showed only /pagefile.sys deleted. Yes, there isn't really anything

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing

2006-11-24 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
Hi, Thanks for your help and the images. On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Frans Pop wrote: I hope the info available now will be sufficient to track down the problem. If not, I could repeat the procedure and also generate an image after running the Windows 2000 chkdsk. Please. That could be very

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing

2006-11-24 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
Hi, Could you please try this after running ntfsresize and before booting Vista: dd if=PARTITION bs=512 count=1 | dd of=PARTITION seek=LAST_SECTOR where LAST_SECTOR is the last sector on PARTITION. It can be calculated by running sfdisk -d DISK | grep PARTITION and then by

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing (was: Re: Bug#379628: ntfsresize: resizing a Vista NTFS partition ...)

2006-11-22 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Frans Pop wrote: I've tried this in vmware. Apparently you should be able to use the Vista installer's Recovery Environment [1] to run chkdsk. Unfortunately it seems that the Vista installer dislikes what ntfsresize has done so much that that also fails to boot! It's

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing (was: Re: Bug#379628: ntfsresize: resizing a Vista NTFS partition ...)

2006-11-22 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 23 November 2006 00:27, Szaka wrote: It's possible that it checks the boot sector for changes, e.g. against viruses, rootkits, etc. I still don't see why it should affect booting the _installer_. I think this is a beta2 bug which was

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing (was: Re: Bug#379628: ntfsresize: resizing a Vista NTFS partition ...)

2006-11-12 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Andree Leidenfrost wrote: On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 21:43 +0200, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: GParted was used with Vista RC1 in the below article. Same hang but chkdsk fixed the boot problem: http://opensource.apress.com/article/163/taking-a-look-at-vista-part-iii

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing (was: Re: Bug#379628: ntfsresize: resizing a Vista NTFS partition ...)

2006-11-12 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
Hi, On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Andree Leidenfrost wrote: The problem for me is how to run chkdsk after the resize. If you can tell me how I'll do it. I think, your only chance is Google. ... But I would still focus only on the latest Vista

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing (was: Re: Bug#379628: ntfsresize: resizing a Vista NTFS partition ...)

2006-11-11 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
Hi, On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Andree Leidenfrost wrote: I had another look and used F6-F8-Safe Mode with Command Prompt. In the attached screenshot you can see that it stops after it loaded crcdisk.sys. Google says other people experience the same. Thanks, I've checked some Google posts.

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing

2006-11-11 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Perhaps try replacing ntdetect.com and ntldr with the versions that came with an earlier Vista beta? For reference see:

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing (was: ntfsresize: resizing a Vista NTFS partition ...)

2006-11-09 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
Hi, Vista went gold. Unfortunately nobody could test the problem with the latest Vista BETA, hence we don't know if the problem still exists or Microsoft fixed it. Thanks to all who did everything he could. On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Frans Pop wrote: No, but I'm surprised that data partitions

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing (was: ntfsresize: resizing a Vista NTFS partition ...)

2006-11-09 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
[Frans: Could you please keep all interested parties CC'd? They don't get your emails and I must add Andree and linux-ntfs-dev manually every time. Thanks.] On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 09 November 2006 09:03, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: Andree confirmed that it's true

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing (was: Re: Bug#379628: ntfsresize: resizing a Vista NTFS partition leads to corrupted partition)

2006-11-08 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
Hi, On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Andree Leidenfrost wrote: Thanks a lot for your response! Thanks for yours too! :) Ok, I've reinstalled and created a 10GB E: drive in Vista after that. Surprisingly enough (at least to me), after reducing the size by 1MB following your original instructions,

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing (was: Re: Bug#379628: ntfsresize: resizing a Vista NTFS partition leads to corrupted partition)

2006-11-08 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 05 November 2006 23:57, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: So, it seems we should plan and implement denial of the resizing for Vista, asap. This is not so bad, because Vista started to include a non-destructive resizer. Well, it is a pity that we

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing (was: Re: Bug#379628: ntfsresize: resizing a Vista NTFS partition leads to corrupted partition)

2006-11-05 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
Hi Andree, On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Andree Leidenfrost wrote: I have made a Vista partition 1MB smaller as per your instructions. I can confirm that Vista does not boot anymore after this. Rather it hangs on the black screen with the 'golden' progress bar with 'C 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All

Bug#379628: CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing (was: Re: Bug#379628: ntfsresize: resizing a Vista NTFS partition leads to corrupted partition)

2006-11-04 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
Hi, Here is the promised summary. So far, it looks promising :) Success:0 Failure:0 I've also asked help now on the ntfsresize faq page. 5000-7000 visitors a week. Let's see if they can help, I'll let you know. Szaka On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Szakacsits

Bug#395901: FTBFS (alpha): va_list abuse

2006-10-29 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
Please feel free to remove the offending 'args = NULL;' lines. It's part of a dead, unused, broken functionality. It will be fixed properly in the next ntfs-3g release. Hi. Attached is the complete ntfs-3g fix. Compile tested only on x86. Thanks, SzakaIndex:

Bug#379628: CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing (was: Re: Bug#379628: ntfsresize: resizing a Vista NTFS partition leads to corrupted partition)

2006-10-28 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
Hi, Linux had no problem with Vista Beta NTFS support in the past but there is indication that this may have changed with the latest Vista Beta releases. I would like to ask people's help to confirm or refute this situation. Please, anybody who has the possibility, follow the below

Bug#379628: CALL FOR HELP: Vista beta compatibility testing (was: Re: Bug#379628: ntfsresize: resizing a Vista NTFS partition leads to corrupted partition)

2006-10-28 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Frans Pop wrote: On Saturday 28 October 2006 18:25, you wrote: 5. Reboot into Vista. You must see the scheduled chkdsk running after which Vista should either continue booting fine (data partition) or automatically initiate a reboot of the computer (system

Bug#395901: FTBFS (alpha): va_list abuse

2006-10-28 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
Hi, Please feel free to remove the offending 'args = NULL;' lines. It's part of a dead, unused, broken functionality. It will be fixed properly in the next ntfs-3g release. Thank you, Szaka -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#390778: ITP: ntfs-3g -- A read-write NTFS driver for FUSE

2006-10-06 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Adam [iso-8859-1] C?cile (Le_Vert) wrote: Okay i386, amd64 (unofficial) supported. Great. What's about 32 bits little-endian other arches, I mean arm and mipsel ? Any feedbacks ? Arm and hppa has fuse problems. No more arch related info yet. I can give you ssh root

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: ntfsresize: resizing a Vista NTFS partition leads to corrupted partition

2006-08-21 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Frans Pop wrote: You can also safely reboot into Vista after ntfsresize, no need to do the partitioning at the same time. If Vista boots then it's not ntfsresize problem, if it doesn't then it's ntfsresize problem. I'm sorry, but I get exactly the same error if I do

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: ntfsresize: resizing a Vista NTFS partition leads to corrupted partition

2006-08-21 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Frans Pop wrote: You can also safely reboot into Vista after ntfsresize, no need to do the partitioning at the same time. If Vista boots then it's not ntfsresize problem, if it doesn't then it's ntfsresize problem

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: ntfsresize: resizing a Vista NTFS partition leads to corrupted partition

2006-08-21 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Frans Pop wrote: You can also safely reboot into Vista after ntfsresize, no need to do the partitioning at the same time. If Vista boots then it's not ntfsresize

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: ntfsresize: resizing a Vista NTFS partition leads to corrupted partition

2006-08-21 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Frans Pop wrote: Yes, I have done previous tests using 1.13.1 too, indeed with no difference in behavior. I have just upgraded my test system from etch to sid, so all my following tests will use 1.13.1 again. Ok, thanks. Yes, all my previous tests have been on real

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: ntfsresize: resizing a Vista NTFS partition leads to corrupted partition

2006-08-21 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 21 August 2006 16:40, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: If a checksum doesn't match (except a few metadata files) then you've found an ntfsresize problem. Attached is the result of the md5sum check straight after running ntfsresize (failures only

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: ntfsresize: resizing a Vista NTFS partition leads to corrupted partition

2006-08-21 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 21 August 2006 16:40, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: If a checksum doesn't match (except a few metadata files) then you've found an ntfsresize problem. Attached is the result of the md5sum

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: ntfsresize: resizing a Vista NTFS partition leads to corrupted partition

2006-08-21 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 21 August 2006 16:40, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: If a checksum doesn't match (except a few metadata files) then you've found an ntfsresize problem. Attached is the result of the md5sum check straight after running ntfsresize (failures only

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: ntfsresize: resizing a Vista NTFS partition leads to corrupted partition

2006-08-21 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Frans Pop wrote: Are the files the same for which the checksums differ if you resize again at the exact same size? Or do you mean for me to retry again starting from the situation _before_ resizing? Yes. If it's repeatable then we could exclude that you have a

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: ntfsresize: resizing a Vista NTFS partition leads to corrupted partition

2006-08-21 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 21 August 2006 19:31, you wrote: Would it be possible to send the vista metadata image Available from: http://people.debian.org/~fjp/ntfsmeta.img.bz2 and tell us at what size you resize? Thanks. Mostly at 9GB but 12GB also fails.

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: ntfsresize: resizing a Vista NTFS partition leads to corrupted partition

2006-08-21 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 21 August 2006 19:31, you wrote: Would it be possible to send the vista metadata image Available from: http://people.debian.org/~fjp/ntfsmeta.img.bz2 and tell us at what size you

Bug#379628: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Bug#379628: ntfsresize: resizing a Vista NTFS partition leads to corrupted partition

2006-08-13 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
Hi, Sorry, I was away and didn't have time yet to answer your former ntfsresize emails (afair, you also found the solution yourself which is in the manual and at end of the ntfsresize output). On Sun, 13 Aug 2006, Frans Pop wrote: - Use fdisk in sector mode to resize the partition to ~10GB.

Bug#350679: ntfsprogs: ntfsresize slow for simple query

2006-07-14 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, David [iso-8859-1] Mart?nez Moreno wrote: El mi?rcoles, 1 de febrero de 2006 06:31, Ross Boylan escribi?: On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 02:28:35PM +0100, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: [...] Hello, Ross. I am packaging the just released 1.13.1 version of ntfsprogs