ntfs resize failures should be more informative (auto-resize)

[Henrik Nilsen Omma]

i installed windows 2000 on an 8gb virtualbox disc and tried an auto-resize install with edubuntu desktop. first it warned me that the change was irreversible and then failed to start the resize. -- turns out this was due to a corrupted ntfs partition. The information about that should be brought to the user.

[Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik)]

The Windows system boots fine after this, so no damage done. You are also taken directly to the manual partitioning page after the auto-resize gives up, so it recovers fairly gracefully.

[Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik)]

fails in the manual partitioner and gparted too. Will try the alternate CD and on real hardware.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Apr 12 10:11:51 ubuntu ntfsresize: The NTFS journal file is unclean. Please shutdown Windows properly before
Apr 12 10:11:51 ubuntu ntfsresize: using this software! Note, if you have run chkdsk previously then boot
Apr 12 10:11:51 ubuntu ntfsresize: Windows again which will automatically initialize the journal correctly.
Apr 12 10:11:51 ubuntu partman: Error resizing the NTFS file system

[Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik)]

Checking and defragging the ntfs drive from Windows helped. It now resizes and installs fine. I'll change the status and severity of the bug to one suggesting ubiquity should provide better error messages in such cases. Half-broken Windows installs are a common reason to install Ubuntu :)

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Note also bug 14100. I'm keeping this bug separate as it concerns primarily the auto-resize feature, which might require a slightly different UI.