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From: Szakacsits S. <sz...@si...> - 2003-03-13 14:22:59
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On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Attila Tajti wrote: > On Thursday 2003 March 13 13:28, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > > > Funnily, just resizing e.g. 1 MB below the current NTFS filesystem > > size (no disk partitioning needed) would fix your problem :) > > I tried to do that today because I wanted to free up some space for FreeBSD > but ntfsresize reported ERROR: Device has bad sectors, not supported > so I think I don't have a chance. Quite bad luck. This is only the second such report. It's pretty easy to support this case however I didn't add because these drives are itself unreliable. I don't want ntfsresize to be blamed just because the bad hardware can/will fail. > Do you think running chkdsk on the partition would help? I don't > know if this means filesystem or surface problems. No. This is a surface problem. Do frequent backups ... Szaka |
