Bug 71980

Joonatan Kaartinen wrote:

>>Number:         71980
>>Category:       docs
>>Synopsis:       Handbook says that no other software is known to be able to resize NTFS...
>>Confidential:   no
>>Severity:       non-critical
>>Priority:       low
>>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>>State:          open
>>Quarter:        
>>Keywords:       
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>>Class:          doc-bug
>>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>>Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 21 17:10:25 GMT 2004
>>Closed-Date:
>>Last-Modified:
>>Originator:     Joonatan Kaartinen
>>Release:        N/A
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>There is a line in handbook that says:
>"PartitionMagic is the only known application that can resize NTFS."
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>This is no longer accurate. There is an utility available from http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ called 
>ntfsresize that can also resize NTFS partitions. It's included by default in Linux live-cd called 
>Knoppix. Also present in Debian in package ntfsprogs.
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>I have used the utility a couple of times. No problems so far.
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>I have no idea how portable the utilities are, though.
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I don't know if it's in the Handbook's best interest to include every
disk utility that can do this, although I personally wouldn't mind
a "short list", and the list might be pretty short.

  However, that really isn't my call; here's a patch that
at least makes the handbook a little less of a "liar".  If it's
OK with some docteam "seniors" <??>, maybe we can close
this PR soon?

Thanks, Joonatan!

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--- chapter.sgml        Fri Nov 19 17:19:42 2004
+++ chapter.edit.sgml   Mon Nov 22 16:03:31 2004
@@ -281,8 +281,8 @@
        <application>&partitionmagic;</application> can resize
        <acronym>FAT16</acronym> and <acronym>FAT32</acronym>
        partitions &mdash; used in &ms-dos; through &windows; ME.
-       <application>&partitionmagic;</application> is the only known
-       application that can resize <acronym>NTFS</acronym>.</para>
+       <application>&partitionmagic;</application> is the only one of
+       the applications discussed above that can resize 
<acronym>NTFS</acronym>.</para>
 
       <warning>
        <para>Incorrect use of these tools can delete the data on your disk.
       
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Comment 2 Murray Stokely 2005-03-18 02:05:15 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

Thanks for your patch.  I have applied it (may take up to 24 hours for 
the website to be updated).  Does anyone else have any information 
about ntfsresize?  Can we provide a description of that tool as well? 
Should we provide it in the tools/ directory?

Comment 3 Tom Rhodes 2006-11-06 15:08:34 UTC

State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

The handbook actually states, after your quoted text, "in the 
above."  So this really isn't a bug but a misreading of the 
text; however, I am listing GParted as another tool to give 
us one free and one commercial tool.  No more than these two 
should be added though.  Thanks. 

Comment 4 Tom Rhodes 2006-11-06 15:08:34 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->trhodes

Over to me.

Comment 5 dfilter service 2006-11-06 15:08:34 UTC

trhodes     2006-11-06 15:08:18 UTC

  FreeBSD doc repository

  Modified files:
    en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install chapter.sgml 
  Log:
  Mention one commerical and one free application which may be used to resize
  NTFS partitions.
  
  PR:     98941 and 71980
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.335     +2 -2      doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml
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