On Monday, 08 June 2015 at @07:06 zulu, Gordon Messmer wrote:> Why? If you use gparted (ntfsprogs, under the covers, IIRC), the system > will chkdsk on the next boot. No such requirement exists with Microsoft's > toolsThat's not been my experience... gparted does use ntfs-3g to work on NTFS partitions (what linux-based tool doesn't?), but does not by default set the dirty bit. Its GUI also offers much-finer granularity than microsoft's.
----- Original Message ----- | On Monday, 08 June 2015 at @07:06 zulu, Gordon Messmer wrote: | | > Why? If you use gparted (ntfsprogs, under the covers, IIRC), the system | > will chkdsk on the next boot. No such requirement exists with Microsoft's | > tools | | | | That's not been my experience... gparted does use ntfs-3g to work on NTFS | partitions (what linux-based tool doesn't?), but does not by default set | the dirty bit. Its GUI also offers much-finer granularity than microsoft's. Listen, it's far simpler than that. Call Microsoft and tell them that you resized a file system with a third party tool and now your file system is corrupt and you'd like them to support you. Await the click and awkward silence. Now call Microsoft and tell them that you used their tools to resize the file system and it is somehow corrupt and watch as they try to determine what happened recover that file system. I've had experience with both and their technical support staff and management are far more likely to support you when something goes wrong if it's their tools rather than some third party systems. Just my 2c -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 604-365-6432 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices Twitter : @sfu_rcg Powering Engagement Through Technology
On 6/9/2015 12:33 PM, James A. Peltier wrote:> Listen, it's far simpler than that. Call Microsoft and tell them that you resized a file system with a third party tool and now your file system is corrupt and you'd like them to support you. Await the click and awkward silence.hey, I'd hang up, too. I don't trust in-place partition shrinking, no matter WHAT the software. my preferred method of resizing NTFS is to use Acronis TrueImage or another similar backup tool to make a complete file system image of the partitions of the disk onto external media, then repartition the disk and restore that image to new smaller partitions. If anything goes wrong like a system crash, power fail, etc during the first step, nothing is lost, just redo it. and if something goes wrong during the 2nd step, well, you have that full backup, you can restore it again. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz