Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gparted
Not sure how to best install 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...
** Affects: gparted (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Gparted can't resize NTFS
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/222931
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