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
On 06/09/15 15:41, John R Pierce wrote:> 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. > >Hey All, Thank you all so much for your help. Many suggested the MS tools. I tried those tools before turning to you all for help. The MS tools complained about trying to expand the active file system. It appears that the tools on Win7 Pro can not expand the active system file system. I tried both the GUI version where you right click on the file system and choose expand, and the command line diskpart command. I used: kpartx -av my.img to mount my image file ntfsresize -P --force --force /dev/mapper/loop0p2 to resize the file system to fit the previously expanded partition. Widows ran a file system check, booted up, and now reports a 50GB partition. I'm happy, and Windows is happy. Now I can proceed to install a bunch of software on the newly expanded file system. -- _ ?v? /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ****
On 9 June 2015 at 21:41, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >What I normally do is power off the VM; add the drive I want to extend onto another windows VM and use Microsoft diskpart tool to extend the volume and it works in VMware, Virtual Box and KVM without fail or corrupting any file system. -- Kind Regards Earl Ramirez
On 06/09/2015 04:20 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:> Many suggested the MS tools. I tried those tools before turning to you > all for help. The MS tools complained about trying to expand the active > file system. It appears that the tools on Win7 Pro can not expand the > active system file system.Diagnosing that problem, specifically, is probably off topic, but I can assure you that the tools on Windows 7 can expand an active file system. I shrank and expanded a partition (the C:\ volume) on Windows 7 Home Basic this morning, and I'm absolutely certain that every version of Windows 7 (and Windows Server 2008) can resize an active NTFS volume, with no chkdsk required.