GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 665128
Resize NTFS failed at "grow file system to fill the partition"
Last modified: 2011-12-05 11:09:02 UTC
Created attachment 202363 [details] Saved details Attempting to shrink a Windows partition. The resize seemed to work successfully until the final stage where it looks just like confirmation wasn't given to change the filesystem. I will attempt recovery by manually running "ntfsresize -P --force /dev/sda3", although it doesn't look like it'll actually do much. GParted 0.8.1 --enable-libparted-dmraid Libparted 2.3 Shrink /dev/sda3 from 68.34 GiB to 52.35 GiB 00:02:21 ( ERROR ) ...snip lots of success... grow file system to fill the partition 00:00:02 ( ERROR ) run simulation 00:00:01 ( SUCCESS ) ...snip... real resize 00:00:01 ( ERROR ) ntfsresize -P --force /dev/sda3 ntfsresize v2011.4.12AR.4 (libntfs-3g) Device name : /dev/sda3 NTFS volume version: 3.1 Cluster size : 4096 bytes Current volume size: 56205763072 bytes (56206 MB) Current device size: 56205770752 bytes (56206 MB) New volume size : 56205767168 bytes (56206 MB) Checking filesystem consistency ... Accounting clusters ... Space in use : 48302 MB (85.9%) Collecting resizing constraints ... WARNING: Every sanity check passed and only the dangerous operations left. Make sure that important data has been backed up! Power outage or computer crash may result major data loss! Are you sure you want to proceed (y/[n])? OK quitting. NO CHANGES have been made to your NTFS volume.
This problem was related to a change in error handling behaviour in the ntfs-3g project, and how GParted handled these errors. See Bug #655215 - NTFS partition resize fails This bug was fixed with GParted 0.9.1. Please try using the latest version of GParted and/or ntfs-3g. Marking this bug as a duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 655215 ***
Thanks. Glad to see it's understood and fixed, but it's not something I can repeat to test the new version. I felt I should report it as I was using GParted from stock Ubuntu 11.10, so I can see this happening over and over again.