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From: Attila T. <at...@sp...> - 2003-03-13 15:31:13
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On Thursday 2003 March 13 15:16, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > 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. Not that bad... I think buying a new HDD is justified now. :) Also a clear warning message about bad sectors would be fine, eg. I would be happy to test it... but I understand your concerns. > > 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 ... Is there a way to check the surface from Linux apart from dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null ? It seem to go crazy somewhere in that NTFS partition. Thank you, Attila |
