Amos' advice below is actually not correct in all circumstances. If
you are shrinking a NTFS filesystem, you should *NOT* change the host
partition size with fdisk first. By doing this, ntfsresize will no
longer have access to the tail of the partition you have chopped
off, and you will have a
An unchecked NTFS filesystem can be mounted in Ubuntu, but only if you
force it to be mounted read-only (so at least you can read the data)
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:42 AM, bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a 120gb SATA HD formatted NTFS ( 2 partitions - dont think 2nd is
used/formatted as
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Re: [SLUG] NTFS HD, chkdsk and ntfsresize?
From:
Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date:
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:03:20 +1000
To:
SLUG slug@slug.org.au
To:
SLUG slug@slug.org.au
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:42 AM, bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Note - Using 57676M ( obtained from result of sudo
I have a 120gb SATA HD formatted NTFS ( 2 partitions - dont think 2nd is
used/formatted as only 1 shows up) in my Kubuntu Hardy PC.
Cant mount the HD, requires CHKDSK to be run as error message says drive
not shut down properly.
Havent had an XP install on any of my Desktop PCS for 2 years
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:42 AM, bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Note - Using 57676M ( obtained from result of sudo ntfsresize -i /dev/sda1
above) didnt work.
Is it safe to use sudo ntfsresize --force -s 43896M /dev/sda1 or do I risk
losing my data?
You should first resize the partition in
