Created attachment 426254 [details] anaconda log Description of problem: I was installing Fedora 13 KDE spin from the live cd taken from the official website. The machine was a just bought Thinkpad R500. I had the following attatched error when resizing the ntfs partition of Windows 7. The ntfs partition was damaged. I was lucky because I had the hidden recover partition. A severe bug like this can give to red hat several legal problems. It is not cool to have the existing partition damaged.
Skip the threats. They do nothing to help your cause. There is always inherent risk in running a system installer, which is why you should always make backups before doing anything. That's just basic knowledge that everyone should have by this point in the life of computers. Anyway, clearly there's something odd going on with ntfsresize: 03:43:54,249 INFO program: ntfsresize v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0) 03:43:54,249 INFO program: ERROR: Current NTFS volume size is bigger than the device size! 03:43:54,250 INFO program: Corrupt partition table or incorrect device partitioning?
No threats man I was speaking in general, I simply got angry thinking about that bug and about a previous very hated bug (#488532). Think about a person (which was not my case) that has important things on the OTHER partition. Yeah backups are a must, I always do them, by the way it is no admissible having this kind of bug after a lot of relases with good resizing processes. Don't reply to which I have just written up there because it's okay and I do not want to flame. BTW I think that could be good to include advanced debug libraries in the installing process, to have very good debug messages to report.
Created attachment 915162 [details] Comment (This comment was longer than 65,535 characters and has been moved to an attachment by Red Hat Bugzilla).
Again, this is the error that ntfsresize is throwing: 12:03:58,498 INFO program: ERROR: Current NTFS volume size is bigger than the device size! 12:03:58,498 INFO program: Corrupt partition table or incorrect device partitioning? Did you partition this disk manually? Did you partition it with Windows? Is this disk layout how the system came from the vendor?
> 03:43:54,249 INFO program: ntfsresize v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0) > 03:43:54,249 INFO program: ERROR: Current NTFS volume size is bigger than the device size! The ntfsfix from the latest ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2011.4.12 should fix this
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(In reply to comment #4) > Again, this is the error that ntfsresize is throwing: > > 12:03:58,498 INFO program: ERROR: Current NTFS volume size is bigger than the > device size! > 12:03:58,498 INFO program: Corrupt partition table or incorrect device > partitioning? > > Did you partition this disk manually? Did you partition it with Windows? Is > this disk layout how the system came from the vendor? I resized using the graphical installer of Fedora
(In reply to comment #5) > > 03:43:54,249 INFO program: ntfsresize v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0) > > 03:43:54,249 INFO program: ERROR: Current NTFS volume size is bigger than the > device size! > > The ntfsfix from the latest ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2011.4.12 should fix this News? This has been fixed? I have not had this bug anymore because after this dangerous bug I use gparted to resize ntfs partitions everytime I need to install Fedora
Should be fixed in modern versions of Fedora.