NTFS Resize

[cheetahman]

What can I do if I get "Your disk has bad sectors (manufacturing faults or dying disk)" message?
Ntfsresize supports physically damaged disks since version 1.11.0. You must also use the --bad-sectors option. Please see more details and suggestions at this option in the ntfsresize manual.

Do you know any distros that have that version with qtparted with ntfsresize 1.11.0 and QTparted 0.4.4

this is what some distros have

Knoppix 3.9 - QTParted 0.4.4 1.9.4
SuSE 9.3 - YaST - 1.9.4
RIP 13.0 - 1.11.0

The current RIP is 13.9

Here is the site I am refering to

http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html

Jul 22, 2005 Ntfsprogs 1.11.1 is released. Due to popular demand, Ntfsresize now supports disks having known physical damages, bad sectors. Please see more at the --bad-sectors option in the Ntfsresize manual. Thanks to Fritz Oppliger, Richard Ebling, Sid-Ahmed Touati and Jan Kiszka for their help!

Jun 26, 2005 Ntfsprogs 1.10.0 is released. The latest Ntfsresize determines and reports more types of inconsistent NTFS and more importantly it is now also able to detect Hibernated Windows and refuse resizing to prevent Windows destroying the filesystem when it comes out of hibernation. Luckily the Hibernation mode is very infrequently used contrary to the much more comfortable thus popular Standby power saving mode that doesn't hide this filesystem destruction threat. Upgrade is strongly recommended to this version for the complete safety of users' data! Please also note that, as far as we know, no other tools implemented this extra safety check for NTFS or any other filesystems. Many thanks to Florian Eyben who called our attention to this important issue.

[psych-major]

Try the latest version of SimplyMepis (http://www.mepis.org/).

You can also run the Zen Linux Live CD. It doesn't have either app installed, but while booted to it you can run apt-get to download and install the latest version of both. I have done this and on my DSL connection the whole thing took about 15 minutes on an old Sony Viao.

[cheetahman]

Does Knoppix,Ubuntu,Kubuntu have this ability also

[cheetahman]

Zen is based on Debian and so is Knoppix would they take rpms

[psych-major]

I haven't tried, but since they're also debian based. then probably.

[psych-major]

I don't know about the rpm's, as I use Slackware and never deal with them!

Try booting your favorite one, open a terminal and run something this:

apt-get update
apt-get install ntfsresize
apt-get install qtparted


I'm totally going from memory here, so if it doesn't work, check the man page for apt-get.

[cheetahman]

what if I just click on them would that work and can I do this on the live cd

[psych-major]

I guess I don't know what you mean...

[cheetahman]

To make it it easier by right clicking it and installing it

[psych-major]

If you mean to install the whole distro to the hard drive, yes. And you can also install things into the RAM drive created by the live CD, but they will, of course, be removed when you reboot.

[cheetahman]

Not installing the distro but installing the programs that could resize ntfs

[psych-major]

Whatever you're most comfortable with should work fine, I just tend to be more comfortable in the command line!

[cheetahman]

Are there any other ways or is apt the only way to run it

[psych-major]

In order to use one of your current Live CD's, then I think Apt-get would be the easiest.

Otherwise, if you feel like downloading, I think SimplyMepis comes with versions of ntfsresize and qtparted higher than what you need already installed and ready to go.

[cheetahman]

What about Kubuntu or Ubuntu would it be easier to install in these Live Cds

[psych-major]

Installation with either should be OK, via apt-get. Provided they don't already have them preconfigured.

[cheetahman]

They are rpms by the way what are some rpm distro based live cds