The livecd has no ntfsresize command or other utility for allowing the resizing of ntfs partitions during intall. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot livecd (universal or minimal) 2.sit and ponder how to resize your ntfs partition 3. Actual Results: No utility present. As a self sufficient distribution, gentoo livecds should offer a utility for resizing ntfs partitions. Other livecds (for example knoppix) have the tool currently, but most users do not want to perform an alternate install method and would rather not go but Partition Magic just to install Gentoo. I've had a several people in #gentoo ask how to do their ntfs resize, and it's discouraging to have to download another distro just to use one tool.
*** Bug 95913 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
We have not been offering an NTFS resize utility for several reasons. The primary being that it is not a safe operation and we don't want to support it when users break their Windows installations. I'll look into it for 2005.1, but I won't make any promises.
Of course nothing is 100% safe but I've used the ntfs resize with the Ubuntu installer without problems. Also for example Mandriva includes graphical interface to the resizer. I think we should include it. It can have warnings attached and it doesn't even have to be in $PATH but we should include it.
We're a bit more conservative on what we include. We don't have an ntfs resizing application in portage, so there's no way it'll make it on 2005.1's release. Feel free to REOPEN this bug once a resize utility is in portage and is marked stable on supported architectures (x86 and amd64, at least, though there *could* be PPC and MIPS machines out there with NTFS on them).
Well it seems that ntfsresize is part of the ntfsprogs package and version 1.9.2 is marked as stable. It is most likely that our live cds have had ntfsresize for a while. We could also mark Bug 21029 and Bug 21415 as fixed or duplicates.
Wait... so ntfsresize is part of ntfsprogs? Does it require NTFS write support in the kernel to function?
(In reply to comment #6) > Wait... so ntfsresize is part of ntfsprogs? > > Does it require NTFS write support in the kernel to function? Probably yes, because it moves files around. I haven't tested ntfsresize on Gentoo. Of course it is easy to test with for example a look back filesystem.
OK... how about this... We're *real* close to finalizing the release for 2005.1 and I honestly do not have time to test this. If you could test it and report back, then I could get this squeezed into the release. Otherwise, it'll have to wait until 2006.0's release.
*** Bug 21029 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 21415 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
according to the ntfsprogs homepage, ntfsresize should be quite safe it doesnt use kernel drivers to access the filesystem, it operates on the block device itself, so kernel version should be a non issue
So this should already be fixed as of 2005.0, then? We included ntfsprogs in 2005.0. Let me know if this is not the case. Otherwise, I am going to mark this as FIXED.
No NTFS here... but it looks FIXED to me. Feel free to REOPEN if I am wrong.
