Slack 14.2 gParted ntfs errors on external drive.

BW-userx · 03-27-2017, 05:08 PM

I have no idea why I am getting these errors using gParted on an external hdd 750GB- Image included.

I tried shrinking it to give some to an ext4 then it error on me telling me it count not determine space on ntfs part, so I deleted the entire drive- recreated a partition table recreated the partition ntfs keeping off ~30GB for ext4 it completed without error. now it is showing my that triangle error the image shows what it says.

Does that actually mean to ckdisk -f on windows which is not this external - my brain says it is just on that ntfs external drive then reboot twice? makes not much sense to me. I never had this issue before.

found something worse this --

Code:

userx@slackwhere:~ $chkdsk
bash: chkdsk: command not found
userx@slackwhere:~ $sudo chkdsk
sudo: chkdsk: command not found

it says to run chkdsk /f - I have not got that on here. Google it - ok that's windows cr*p now what?

allend · 03-27-2017, 05:29 PM

NTFS is a proprietary file system developed by Microsoft for Windows operating systems. When problems occur, you need to use the chkdsk Windows tool to recover.
Take the external HDD to a Windows machine and do as described.

For resizing NTFS partitions, I have always found 'ntfsresize' to be reliable.

BW-userx · 03-27-2017, 06:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by allend

NTFS is a proprietary file system developed by Microsoft for Windows operating systems. When problems occur, you need to use the chkdsk Windows tool to recover.
Take the external HDD to a Windows machine and do as described.

For resizing NTFS partitions, I have always found 'ntfsresize' to be reliable.

AH ha I've never heard of that. Something to look into. I take it that is Liunx/GNU stuff. google time...
thanks

allend · 03-27-2017, 07:18 PM

No need for google, just 'man ntfsresize', as it is already in Slackware. I believe that gParted uses a GUI front end to call ntfsresize.

BW-userx · 03-27-2017, 08:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by allend

No need for google, just 'man ntfsresize', as it is already in Slackware. I believe that gParted uses a GUI front end to call ntfsresize.

well if gParted is using ntfsresize to deal with ntfs and it is screwing up via gParted then ... ???
I do have windows 10 on here too, so when I get more time I am going to boot win10 and use its resizing software to set it up for a parted ntfs and one left over that I can use ext4 on and see how that goes.