| 2010-02-02 19:40:02 |
Sense Egbert Hofstede |
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This problem occurs at install so it's serious. I'm not sure it'd be trivial to fix but I think it would be trivial to put up a warning saying something is wrong.
Basically I'm referring to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/121943/comments/14
I haven't got to the bottom of the issue yet but it has prevented me from installing Ubuntu and Mint. (I'm running Crunchbang, an Ubuntu derivative.) I resized my NTFS partition and it's possible that some issue stemming from that causes Gparted to not start up anymore.
Resizing a partition is a typical pre-install task. It seems like the partition manager is fussy and doubtless there are issues with NTFS partitions and Linux but NTFS partitions are very common. It can't just hang, it has to tell me something. |
This problem occurs at install so it's serious. I'm not sure it'd be trivial to fix but I think it would be trivial to put up a warning saying something is wrong.
The apparent cause of the problem is that partman is issuing a "ntfsresize --info --force --no-progress-bar" command just to gather basic information about the partition. It takes 6 minutes to complete.
Basically I'm referring to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/121943/comments/14
I haven't got to the bottom of the issue yet but it has prevented me from installing Ubuntu and Mint. (I'm running Crunchbang, an Ubuntu derivative.) I resized my NTFS partition and it's possible that some issue stemming from that causes Gparted to not start up anymore.
Resizing a partition is a typical pre-install task. It seems like the partition manager is fussy and doubtless there are issues with NTFS partitions and Linux but NTFS partitions are very common. It can't just hang, it has to tell me something. |
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