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Topic: Cancelled resizing NTFS partition after a few hours.

My problem is similar to http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=16775, except than instead of cancelling after a few seconds, I cancelled after about 16 hours, as I realized the process was likely to take about 2 weeks.

I'll explain my setup. I have a 1TB USB hard drive, and in Ubuntu I got about 500 KB/s transfer, so I decide to convert the NTFS drive to ExT-4 for before performance.
After deleting several files, I got about 450 GB free space, so I decided to resize the disk to about 550GB, and start resizing.

I cancelled it after several hours, despite the warning, and after gparted detects an unknown partition, and of course I can't mount the drive.
However, I notice ntfsresize is still runnning in the background, and strace seems to indicate it's still doing the resizing:

lseek(3, 591587770368, SEEK_SET)        = 591587770368
read(3, "\0\0\240\341\0\0\240\341\0\0\240\341\0\0\240\341\0\0\240\341\0\0\240\341\0\0\240\341\0\0\240\341"..., 65536) = 65536
lseek(3, 36325883904, SEEK_SET)         = 36325883904
write(3, "\0\0\240\341\0\0\240\341\0\0\240\341\0\0\240\341\0\0\240\341\0\0\240\341\0\0\240\341\0\0\240\341"..., 65536) = 65536
lseek(3, 591587835904, SEEK_SET)        = 591587835904
read(3, "\35\334\376\373\5\216\213\26\335+\316\243\302\0354\206\366\222.zn\t\351\343\321\360G\245\276\2\256 "..., 65536) = 65536
lseek(3, 36325949440, SEEK_SET)         = 36325949440

So what should I do now? Kiiling ntfsresize seems like a bad idea, but on the other end it's likely to last at least 10 more days, and I often get power failure here, so I doubt it will last that long.

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Re: Cancelled resizing NTFS partition after a few hours.

Oh well.. My computer hung, so I had to reboot it manually. The 1TB NTFS partition can mount, and I don't appear to have lost any data (TBC).

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Re: Cancelled resizing NTFS partition after a few hours.

Which version of GParted did you use?

Was the drive attached with a SATA cable (fast) or with a USB cable (considerably slower)?