Hi,

I'm using Fedora Core 2 in dual boot with XP. In Windows, when trying to rezises the ext3 FC2 partition with Acronis Disk Director Suite 9, it tells me that their is a File system error: Journal contains unfinished transactions

What is it?? How can I repair it? I've tryed Mandrake 10 before FC2 and I got the same error... How can I avoid this??

Thank you very much.

well to be honest, i am not sure what that error is, but if your ext3 partition and your NTFS winXP partition are on the same drive, and linux can not write NTFS, well not fully yet, i do not think it could resize any partition. i am also assuming that you are increasing your ext3 partition. if that is not the case or they are on different drives, then it is irrelevant.

firenze

Here is my config:
I only have 1 HD.
Partition #1: Windows XP (C:, NTFS, 3.8 GB, primary, hda1)
Partition #2: boot (linux boot, ext3, 100 MB, primary, hda2)
Partition #3: swap (1 GB, hda5)
Partition #4: Fedora Core 2 (ext3, 10 GB, logical, hda6)
Partition #5: ProgramFiles (D:, NTFS, 6 GB, logical, hda7)
Partition #6: Personnal data (E:, NTFS, 30 GB, logical, hda8)
Partition #7: Home directory (F:, FAT32, 1 GB, logical, hda9)
Partition #8: Mandrake 10 (ext3, 10 GB, logical, hda10)

I wanted to create partition #8 for Mandrake but inside Windows, Acronis couldn't do anything... because of the error. I've booted with the mandrake cd and resized the partition #4 (the one containing FC2, etx3, from 20 GB to 10 GB) and Mandrake setup didn't complain.

Inside Windows, Acronis now tells me that the partition size is invalid. Also I can't boot anymore FC2. Its not a big problem, I'm still experimenting, but I would like to have at least an error free partition! I remember when I installed mdk 10 some weeks ago to test it to I got the same error...

But the error is still there...

might it be, that you have a ibm thinkpad? - i ask that because of ibm's 'predesktop area' that gets hidden from the os. well, the hiding works, but not for fdisk...

raist.

No I have a Dell Inspiron 8500.
There is no hidden partition. My HD toasted 6 months ago, so they send me a new one, with nothing on it....

I just posted the same question/problem to:

http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=19228

I've seen the same problem on 5 different new FC2 builds now.

I don't have an answer, but I'm thinking of rebuilding using either Partition Magic or Acronis Disk Director to create the partions instead of allowing FC2 to do it.

I just scraped FC2: the kernel seems to have a bug and can't detect the HD's geometry correctly, so my Windows partition was corrupted. Also this strange problem...
FC2 seems nice but too buggy. I'm using Mandrake 10 now and it is nice.

Good luck...