Comment 10 for bug 14100

Yes, Partman indeed silences all ntfsresize diagnostic messages. Ntfsresize has
a well defined and stable event reporting interface for integration, which other
partitioner front-ends also use. As far as I'm aware, the most userfriendly and
sophisticated is QTParted from this point of view.

When Debian integrated ntfsresize I comment that this spartian interface will
cause lots of usability and supportability problems:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/09/msg02122.html

The interoperability issues were worked out years ago on the ntfsresize side but
on the front-end side developers need to add a couple of lines more code.

So yes, if users currently would like to know why NTFS resizing is refused,
without modification to the NTFS partition, then they must run the ntfsresize
-fi <partition> command from a console. Usage of the latest ntfsresize (version
1.11.2) is strongly recomended because it has a lot of extra safety, diagnostic
check and better explanations which should help users hugely how they could
resolve problems to safely go on.