Cannot resize ntfs partitions in Ubiquity.

[John McCabe-Dansted]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

To reproduce:
Create an NTFS partition with mkntfs.
Run ubiquity on LiveCD.
Choose manual partitioning
Right click ntfs partion, and select edit

In the dialog no "New partition size" entry will be available. This entry is available for ext3 partitions.

Workaround:
Resize NTFS partitions using gparted.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 20 01:26:23 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: ubiquity 1.7.6
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Uname: Linux ubuntu 2.6.24-5-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 24 19:45:21 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Could you please attach /var/log/syslog and /var/log/partman to this bug, following the directions in http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingUbiquity/AttachingLogs? Thanks in advance.

(I initially thought this was due to ntfsprogs being missing, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I'll add an explicit dependency just to make sure.)

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Oh, err, sorry, you did attach them and I'm just not paying enough attention - sorry!

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Feb 20 01:24:19 ubuntu ntfsresize: ERROR: Device '/dev/sda1' is mounted read-write. You must 'umount' it first.

Did you mount this explicitly before starting the installer? It looks from the logs as if you did some fiddling about, including running gparted, before you started the installer.

[John McCabe-Dansted (gmatht)]

Yes, I manually mounted sda1.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

You need to not mount the partition in order to resize it.