GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 576908
GParted should suggest installing ntfsprogs
Last modified: 2010-02-20 18:33:41 UTC
My first experience with gparted was the livecd version, and it handles NTFS partitions fine. I got worried when I installed it in Ubuntu and it showed my NTFS as unreadable. Once I installed ntfsprogs, it could read the partition fine. It would be nice if gparted would suggest installing ntfsprogs instead of just reporting the partition as unreadable, because this can cause people to think something is wrong with their partition. Other information:
Thank you Brad for reporting this problem that you experienced. Have you seen the menu entry "View -> File System Support"? This dialog box displays all of the available actions on file systems, and has the name of the required software package to install. As packages are installed, more actions become available.
I also had this problem. I´m using Ubuntu for a quite long time now and i never figured it out how to resize my NTFS-Partition until yet. I thought that the error message "Can´t read contents ..." have something to do with a broken filesystem ... Gparted should better support NTFS "out-of-the-box" :) greets Jonas
Thank you Jonas for your input. The decision of whether to include additional file system tools, such as ntfsprogs, in the GParted package lies with the packagers for each distribution.
Created attachment 154274 [details] GParted Information About Partition Showing Software Packages Required See above attachment for screen shot of upcoming enhancement.
This code enhancement has been committed to the GNOME repository for inclusion in the next release of GParted. The relevant git commit can be viewed at the following link: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gparted/commit/?id=eba0c88da56707aa8d21610658eab42d2a3090b2 Closing this bug.