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Topic: 0.7.0-4 Fails to move/resize Win7 64b RAID volume

It recognizes the volume.  Looking at the drive list it shows the 4 disks plus the raid volume.  With that selected it shows my three partitions (windows boot, win7 and program partition).  When I try to move or resize the program partition I get an error.  Something to the effect of "failed to check /dev/mapper/isw_hjidbddif_raidvolone mount state.  Possibly /etc/mtab is missing."

Mtab is there, not sure of what its contents are supposed to look like.

The other thing is I can create and destroy new partitions.

This is a RAID 0+1 on an EVGA mobo.

Need direction.  Thanks.

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Re: 0.7.0-4 Fails to move/resize Win7 64b RAID volume

Do you have any spaces in the volume names of your partitions?

If so, then this might be related to Bug 629592 - Unable to find Mount Point if it contains a Space Character.   A work-around would be to temporarily change the volume label to not contain a space character.

I suspect the problem is more likely related to Bug 634553 - ntfsresize fails on RAID array.  This bug fix has not yet been released, but you could compile your own version of GParted from the git repository if you need this functionality earlier.

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Re: 0.7.0-4 Fails to move/resize Win7 64b RAID volume

gedakc wrote:

Do you have any spaces in the volume names of your partitions?

If so, then this might be related to Bug 629592 - Unable to find Mount Point if it contains a Space Character.   A work-around would be to temporarily change the volume label to not contain a space character.

I suspect the problem is more likely related to Bug 634553 - ntfsresize fails on RAID array.  This bug fix has not yet been released, but you could compile your own version of GParted from the git repository if you need this functionality earlier.

Was the fix in -11?  I tried it this morning and got a different result.  Now the error is on the call to dosfsck, it still refers to the raid volume with "p4" tacked on the end that shouldn't be there.

Is there a doc for getting the latest code and compiling it from within the live session?

Thanks.

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Re: 0.7.0-4 Fails to move/resize Win7 64b RAID volume

We're planning to release GParted 0.7.1 in the next day or two, so hopefully that will help with the problem you are experiencing.

You can compile gparted outside of the live session, and then just copy the gpartedbin executable over to the live cd.  Be sure to compile against parted-2.3 so that the libraries match.
How to Build GParted from git Source Code Repository