On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, [iso-8859-1] Ra=FAl Aranovich wrote:
> Thanks for the response. I was using the Leka Linux Rescue Floppy.
> Apparently it does not have an entry for the /dev/hda1 in the fstab fil=
e
> that loads to memory. I believe that's the origin of the problem I had.
That wouldn't be a problem but the lack of /etc/mtab is.
> The advantage of Leka is that is is easily configurable to mount and
> read DOS floppies. So, I copied nstfresize from the DOS floppy to the
> root directory, then I formatted another floppy in the ext2 filesystem,
> copied ntsfresize onto that disk. I re-booted the computer using a
> different floppy: Boot-E. This one could not read the origonal DOS
> floppy that had ntsfresize, but it could do it with the one I made
> using the Linux original filesystem. I fired ntsfresize up under this
> version of Linux, and it seemed to have worked (I don't get the error
> message anymore, and it shows how much of /dev/hda1 I can resize).
Excellent.
> This was a very laborious process, thanks for your help. I hope my comm=
ents
> help other users in the future.
Yes, probably I'll add a list of floppy distributions with their status t=
o
the ntfsresize FAQ, e.g.:
Bad:
Leka - has problems checking mount state
BootE - doesn't support DOS floppys
Tomsrtbt - can't handle partition bigger than 2 GB
Good:
Zool - sucessful reports
Boot floppys created during Linux installations by major distros
Thanks,
Szaka
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