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From: Szakacsits S. <sz...@si...> - 2003-07-10 19:51:38
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Hi, On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Bird, Barry wrote: > Perhaps this experience could be used to improve ntfsresize. Thanks for reporting. > On running ntfsresize from a floppy I got > > ./ntfsresize -i /dev/hda1 > ntfsresize version: 1.7.1s > > Cluster Size: 512 bytes > Current volume/device size: 20011590144 bytes (20012 MB) > > cluster accounting failed at 19542568 (ox12a3228): extra cluster in $Bitmap Here there should be some more information, like "Totally <NUMBER> cluster accounting mismatches." > So I followed the advice, ran Chkdsk, made sure Windows shut down > properly, and it made no difference. With Windows 2000 you have to > schedule chkdsk to run and make corrections to NTFS at the next Windows > reboot. Right, if it's system partition. Doing it from the GUI Windows just reports everything is OK but didn't (can't) correct the errors. > All told I must have run chkdsk 3 times, It's enough once, I mean if you have only one partition, schedule the chkdsk, reboot and it must do the check. > It is interesting to note however, that the position of this alleged > error is exactly half-way along the partition, which is where the 'More > metadata' is located. Is it always at position 19542568 or it changes? Also how many mismatches ntfsresize reports altogether? > I should also point out that this is a relatively fresh installation of > W2k, If chkdsk indeed doesn't help, you could try applying W2K Service PACK. There were several NTFS related fixes AFAIR. > and I had used the Windows 2000 defragmenter to squeeze all the files > (only 1.7Gb) to the start of the partition (was this my mistake?). No, but one can try to resize without using it first also. > Norton Antivirus is installed. Well, if you think some application could make "last minute" magic to the filesystem, etc, you could disable it temporarily. > Has anyone else reported this problem? Yes, there were several inconsist NTFS reports but chkdsk could always fix them. So your case is unique. Cheers, Szaka |
