Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 502422
"Shrink other filesystem" GUI shows no useful info on failure
Last modified: 2010-06-28 08:41:58 EDT
Description of problem: When the NTFS shrink procedure fails, it does so without informing the user of the reason and steps to correct, information which is available from the backend. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have an "unclean" NTFS partition (reset Windows or whatever). 2. Insert Fedora 11 Preview DVD, go through initial steps for new install. 2. Choose "shrink existing filesystem". 3. Select the NTFS partition and gave new size (i.e. from 76G to 45G). 4. No changes to suggested Linux partitions, continue, popup informs of resizing operation Actual results: Popup says "there was an error encountered resizing device". The Details link clarifies that with: "resize failed: 1". Expected results: Some information about what can be done to correct this problem. Additional info: CTRL-ALT-F5 shows the output from the backend: allocation table inconsistency boot Windows and run chkdsk /f then reboot twice. or Extended record needed (1040>1024), not yet supported! Please try to free less space.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
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Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.