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linux-ntfs package

Installer won't resize Windows Vista NTFS-partitions

Bug #86231 reported by Berge Schwebs Bjørlo on 2007-02-19

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	linux-ntfs (Debian)	Fix Released	Unknown	debbugs #379628
	linux-ntfs (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Colin Watson

Bug Description

The installer on the alternate install CD of Feisty Herd 4 will not resize NTFS-partitions created by Windows Vista. It outputs an informative error message on the log console, siting http://bugs.debian.org/379835. The problem seems to be with ntfsresize 1.13.1 - it does not support resizing Vistas NTFS-partitions properly. This is confirmed on http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html (which is down right now, but Google has a cached version). The problem is fixed in ntfsresize 1.13.1.1, and there's a patch available for 1.13.1 as well.

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Joe Barnett (thejoe) wrote on 2007-02-20:

since mlf.linux.rulez.org seems to be down, here's the google-cached version of the patch.

--- ntfsprogs/ntfsresize.c.orig 2006-04-19 00:03:09.000000000 +0200
+++ ntfsprogs/ntfsresize.c 2006-12-02 00:09:44.058395088 +0200
@@ -2289,8 +2289,6 @@
u16 flags;

flags = vol->flags | VOLUME_IS_DIRTY;
- if (vol->major_ver >= 2)
- flags |= VOLUME_MOUNTED_ON_NT4;

printf("Schedule chkdsk for NTFS consistency check at Windows "
"boot time ...\n");

Changed in linux-ntfs:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

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Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki) wrote on 2007-03-11:

The fix is in the upstream release 1.13.1.1, and also the Debian 1.13.1-6 (instead of Ubuntu's 1.13-1-4). The 1.13.1-6 has now migrated to testing, so it will be part of Debian 4.0.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2007-03-14:

Thanks for the suggestion! Note that partman changes are needed too; I'm in progress on these.

[Updating] linux-ntfs (1.13.1-4build2 [Ubuntu] < 1.13.1-6 [Debian])
* Trying to add linux-ntfs...
  - <linux-ntfs_1.13.1-6.diff.gz: downloading from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/>
  - <linux-ntfs_1.13.1-6.dsc: downloading from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/>
  - <linux-ntfs_1.13.1.orig.tar.gz: already in distro - downloading from librarian>
I: linux-ntfs [main] -> libntfs9_1.13.1-4build2 [main].
I: linux-ntfs [main] -> ntfsprogs-udeb_1.13.1-4build2 [main].
I: linux-ntfs [main] -> libntfs-gnomevfs_1.13.1-4build2 [universe].
I: linux-ntfs [main] -> ntfsprogs_1.13.1-4build2 [main].
I: linux-ntfs [main] -> libntfs-dev_1.13.1-4build2 [main].