[Bug 231880] New: Inconsistent limitation on shrinking NTFS partitions
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=231880 Summary: Inconsistent limitation on shrinking NTFS partitions Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: ammulder@chariotsolutions.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com I like to keep a Windows partition on my laptop, but relatively small (just in case I need to run some Windows-only software now and then). It came with a "100 GB" drive with a 4 GB rescue partition (at the end of the drive) and a 90-ish GB Windows partition. Before installing SUSE, I cleaned up the Windows partition (disabled swap/hibernate files, defragged, etc.). When I installed openSUSE 10.2 the first time, it only let me shrink the Windows partition to about 10 GB (I used the manual partitioning option in the installer). The installation went OK. Then I reinstalled (to change from 64-bit to 32-bit), and that time, the installer let me shrink the Windows partition *again*. I only went down to about 6 GB, but the slider went much lower (to 2 or 3 GB I think). I did have some trouble during the partitioning phase of the install this time through (it complained that it couldn't mark the swap partition as type 82 and the install failed), but by that time the Windows partition had been successfully shrunk to 6 GB (so I'm guessing it wasn't a problem with the Windows partition shrinker). Bottom line, it would be nice if the first time through the installer I was able to shrink the Windows partition all the way (to 2-3 GB or whatever the bottom limit was) instead of needing two installations in a row to achieve the maximum Windows partition shrinkage. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=231880 mhorvath@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |ammulder@chariotsolutions.com ------- Comment #1 from mhorvath@novell.com 2007-01-05 10:41 MST ------- Could you please attach the yast logs from the latest installation? I guess you don't have the previous logs stored somewhere, but if you do, please attach also them. Have you checked the NTFS partition with some other program if it's not corrupted? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=231880 ammulder@chariotsolutions.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|ammulder@chariotsolutions.co| |m | ------- Comment #2 from ammulder@chariotsolutions.com 2007-01-08 12:57 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=111903) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=111903&action=view) /var/log/YaST/* Here are the logs from my machine, which is now in a working state. However, I'm not sure it includes data from when I resized the Windows partition. I haven't checked the state of the NTFS partition with a third-party tool. However, I have booted to Windows and it seems to work. After the second resize, I booted to Windows and it ran the disk checker automatically, then rebooted, and since then I haven't used Windows a whole lot but I have gone into it and it seems to be working OK. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=231880 chrubis@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team- |fehr@novell.com |screening@forge.provo.novell| |.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=231880 fehr@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED ------- Comment #3 from fehr@novell.com 2007-01-29 10:30 MST ------- The minimal size YaST2 allows to shrink the windows partition to depends on the available space on the windows partition and the total size of the partition. Therefore the limit is less if you resize an already resized partition (the resized partition has a smaller total size as the original one). I will have a look if it is maybe better to make the minimal size only dependent of the vailable space on the windows partition. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=231880 fehr@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED ------- Comment #4 from fehr@novell.com 2007-02-07 08:59 MST ------- So far the minimal free size was 10 persent of original free size and this explains why you could further resize after a resize. I changed the minimum free size now to absolute values of 200M/1G (the dialog uses GB as units if free size is above 15G, otherwise MB). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
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