Re: gparted corrupts when shrinking ntfs

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 09:26:37PM -0700, John Reiser wrote:
>  When I use Fedora 25 Workstation Live plus gparted to shrink an ntfs
> partition,
>  then the result is corrupt.  This is reproducible on a minimal install
>  of Windows 10 build 1510 (a raw system image dump fits on 2 DVD),
>  such as commonly available on inexpensive refurbished PCs.  Running CHKDSK
>  immediately afterward detects and fixes the corruption for me.
>  Where/how should I start to investigate: which software component, etc.? 
gparted uses ntfsresize to resize NTFS partitions.  That comes
from the ntfs-3g project, so that's where you should start.

http://www.tuxera.com/community/open-source-ntfs-3g/

Rich.

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