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Topic: GParted can't partition my hard drive

Hi,

This is the situation:

I have 2 Hard Drives in my computer:

1 40gig (for Windows and linked programs)
1 80gig for games, music, movies,...

But I recently discovered Ubuntu, downloaded it and made a boot-CD of it.
Now I want to partition my 80gig HD (since I got plenty of space left on that one).
Currently I got 19.2gig available, so I download GParted, burned it and boot my computer with it, all works good.
Then I go into the menu where I get my 2 drives, I select the 80gig one and then try and make 10gig of non-partitioned space. GParted starts doing it but always ends up saying that it didn't work and I should look at Details for the information.
Thing is: Details only mentions that I tried to partition my HD...

Anyone know if I'm doing anything wrong ? smile

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Re: GParted can't partition my hard drive

I guess that if you click on the arrow you will get more details. Please past here those details ...
BTW, this can help : http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/ti … etails.htm

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3 Reply by Jelle1880 (edited by Jelle1880 2007-02-20 01:42:38)

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Re: GParted can't partition my hard drive

Took me some time, but here ya go smile

GParted 0.2.5

Resize /dev/hdb1 from 76.32 GiB to 69.49 GiB    ( ERROR )
        
check filesystem on /dev/hdb1 for errors and (if possible) fix them    ( SUCCES )
        
ntfsresize -P -i -f -v /dev/hdb1
        
ntfsresize v1.12.1 (libntfs 8:1:0)
Using locale 'en_US.UTF-8'.
Device name : /dev/hdb1
NTFS volume version: 3.1
Cluster size : 4096 bytes
Current volume size: 81948430848 bytes (81949 MB)
Current device size: 81948432384 bytes (81949 MB)
Checking filesystem consistency ...
Accounting clusters ...
Space in use : 61331 MB (74.8%)
Collecting resizing constraints ...
Estimating smallest shrunken size supported ...
File feature Last used at By inode
$MFT : 81461 MB 0
Multi-Record : 81872 MB 324
$MFTMirr : 40975 MB 1
Compressed : 81460 MB 13048
Ordinary : 81949 MB 4642
You might resize at 61330489344 bytes or 61331 MB (freeing 20618 MB).
Please make a test run using both the -n and -s options before real resizing!
resize the filesystem    ( ERROR )
        
run simulation    ( SUCCES )
        
ntfsresize -P --force --force /dev/hdb1 -s 74608443392 --no-action
        
ntfsresize v1.12.1 (libntfs 8:1:0)
Device name : /dev/hdb1
NTFS volume version: 3.1
Cluster size : 4096 bytes
Current volume size: 81948430848 bytes (81949 MB)
Current device size: 81948432384 bytes (81949 MB)
New volume size : 74608439808 bytes (74609 MB)
Checking filesystem consistency ...
Accounting clusters ...
Space in use : 61331 MB (74.8%)
Collecting resizing constraints ...
Needed relocations : 1285529 (5266 MB)
Schedule chkdsk for NTFS consistency check at Windows boot time ...
Resetting $LogFile ... (this might take a while)
Relocating needed data ...
Updating $BadClust file ...
Updating $Bitmap file ...
Updating Boot record ...
The read-only test run ended successfully.
resize the filesystem    ( ERROR )
        
ntfsresize -P --force --force /dev/hdb1 -s 74608443392
        
ntfsresize v1.12.1 (libntfs 8:1:0)
ERROR(95): Opening '/dev/hdb1' as NTFS failed: Operation not supported
The NTFS journal file is unclean. Please shutdown Windows properly before
using this software! Note, if you have run chkdsk previously then boot
Windows again which will automatically initialize the journal correctly.
check filesystem on /dev/hdb1 for errors and (if possible) fix them    ( SUCCES )
        
ntfsresize -P -i -f -v /dev/hdb1
        
ntfsresize v1.12.1 (libntfs 8:1:0)
Using locale 'en_US.UTF-8'.
Device name : /dev/hdb1
NTFS volume version: 3.1
Cluster size : 4096 bytes
Current volume size: 81948430848 bytes (81949 MB)
Current device size: 81948432384 bytes (81949 MB)
Checking filesystem consistency ...
Accounting clusters ...
Space in use : 61331 MB (74.8%)
Collecting resizing constraints ...
Estimating smallest shrunken size supported ...
File feature Last used at By inode
$MFT : 81461 MB 0
Multi-Record : 81872 MB 324
$MFTMirr : 40975 MB 1
Compressed : 81460 MB 13048
Ordinary : 81949 MB 4642
You might resize at 61330489344 bytes or 61331 MB (freeing 20618 MB).
Please make a test run using both the -n and -s options before real resizing!
grow filesystem to fill the partition    ( ERROR )
        
run simulation    ( SUCCES )
        
ntfsresize -P --force --force /dev/hdb1 --no-action
        
ntfsresize v1.12.1 (libntfs 8:1:0)
Device name : /dev/hdb1
NTFS volume version: 3.1
Cluster size : 4096 bytes
Current volume size: 81948430848 bytes (81949 MB)
Current device size: 81948432384 bytes (81949 MB)
New volume size : 81948426752 bytes (81949 MB)
Nothing to do: NTFS volume size is already OK.
grow filesystem to fill the partition    ( ERROR )
        
ntfsresize -P --force --force /dev/hdb1
        
ntfsresize v1.12.1 (libntfs 8:1:0)
ERROR(95): Opening '/dev/hdb1' as NTFS failed: Operation not supported
The NTFS journal file is unclean. Please shutdown Windows properly before
using this software! Note, if you have run chkdsk previously then boot
Windows again which will automatically initialize the journal correctly.
check filesystem on /dev/hdb1 for errors and (if possible) fix them    ( SUCCES )
        
ntfsresize -P -i -f -v /dev/hdb1
        
ntfsresize v1.12.1 (libntfs 8:1:0)
Using locale 'en_US.UTF-8'.
Device name : /dev/hdb1
NTFS volume version: 3.1
Cluster size : 4096 bytes
Current volume size: 81948430848 bytes (81949 MB)
Current device size: 81948432384 bytes (81949 MB)
Checking filesystem consistency ...
Accounting clusters ...
Space in use : 61331 MB (74.8%)
Collecting resizing constraints ...
Estimating smallest shrunken size supported ...
File feature Last used at By inode
$MFT : 81461 MB 0
Multi-Record : 81872 MB 324
$MFTMirr : 40975 MB 1
Compressed : 81460 MB 13048
Ordinary : 81949 MB 4642
You might resize at 61330489344 bytes or 61331 MB (freeing 20618 MB).
Please make a test run using both the -n and -s options before real resizing!

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Re: GParted can't partition my hard drive

You are running this ***very*** old version of GParted !
I guess you use this famous ubuntu which is not able to provide update packages to his end-users ?
(Excuse-me but i cant bear the ubuntu attitude about keeping such an old package on there distro! )

Any way, update your version to 0.3.3, please and try again.

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Re: GParted can't partition my hard drive

I had no idea, I just downloaded the version from the GParted-website...
But whether I use GParted separate or GParted that comes with Ubuntu (6.10 version of Ubuntu), I still get the same problem.

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Re: GParted can't partition my hard drive

Well, from your post you use a very old version of ntfsresize ! 1.12
It is 1.13.1.1 now ....
Could please past the output of you problem so i can try to help you ?

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Re: GParted can't partition my hard drive

Yeah, I'll give it as soon as I used the new version (last time I tried downloading the link didn't work).

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Re: GParted can't partition my hard drive

i am sorry about that : i have removed beta iso because i have uploaded a release, but i cant update the site since ssh is down on SF sad
Hope i can do asap !!

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Re: GParted can't partition my hard drive

I was able to download it though, seemed like IE would download it (Firefox didn't...).
But when I unrar it I can't seem to open any of the files...
Can't open INSTALL, README,...

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Re: GParted can't partition my hard drive

You misunderstand something : this an iso file ! It is for burning to a cd !
Is it okay ?

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Re: GParted can't partition my hard drive

I downloaded the first link on the website (.tar file) and it has no .iso file in the map.

This file:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile … _id=469155

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Re: GParted can't partition my hard drive

Jelle1880 wrote:

I downloaded the first link on the website (.tar file) and it has no .iso file in the map.

This file:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile … _id=469155

Okay, then this me that misunderstood :-D ! Sorry. I though you search the livecd :-/
So this is not a rar file but a tar one. BNTW you must run it from within linux, do you know that ?
You can find informations here : http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/ge … parted.htm

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