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Topic: yet another Current NTFS volume size is bigger than the device size

Hi,

I've this problem of NTFS volume size. Saddly I can't manage to edit my Pbr file so that this NTFS partition would fit... . can someone help ?

fdisk :

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x19acd055

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1        61063065   312575896   125756416    7  HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2   *          63      409662      204800   83  Linux
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3          409663    29081662    14336000    6  FAT16
/dev/sda4        29093715    61063064    15984675    5  Extended
/dev/sda5        29093778    31141777     1024000   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6        31141779    61063057    14960639+  83  Linux

ntfsresize -i  -f -n /dev/sda1 :

ntfsresize v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0)
Device name        : /dev/sda1
NTFS volume version: 3.1
Cluster size       : 4096 bytes
Current volume size: 128774980096 bytes (128775 MB)
Current device size: 128774569984 bytes (128775 MB)
ERROR: Current NTFS volume size is bigger than the device size!
Corrupt partition table or incorrect device partitioning?

Pbr :
http://www.mediafire.com/?twdzdnmjtr0

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Re: yet another Current NTFS volume size is bigger than the device size

That's fine now (!!) using hexedit ; but I'd love to set up my Vim the right way. How to put this xxd command "on" ?

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Re: yet another Current NTFS volume size is bigger than the device size

Hi chrono,

Have you fixed the problem you experienced with "Current NTFS volume size is bigger than the device size"?