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From: Anton A. <ai...@ca...> - 2003-07-27 20:16:01
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At 17:20 27/07/2003, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
>On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, [iso-8859-1] Ra=FAl Aranovich wrote:
> > Hi. I have been trying to use 'ntfsresize' to shrink an NTFS filesystem=
in
> > Windows XP. I am doing it from a bootable linux floppy disk. Everything
> > seems to work until I try to access my hard drive with 'ntfsresize'. I=
keep
> > getting this message:
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> > Failed to check '/dev/hda1' mount state: No such file or directory.
>
>It's something to do with the Linux floppy, apparently you don't have
>/etc/mtab. What Linux floppy do you use?
>
> > Is this a bug of the program, or am I missing something?
>
>It's not bug, it's by design. If ntfsresize can't determine if your ntfs is
>mounted or not then it quits. Otherwise if it were mounted then NTFS could
>be trashed.
How about allowing the force option to bypass the mount check?
Best regards,
Anton
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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Linux NTFS Maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
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