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From: Joonatan Kaartinen <j.kaartinen@pp.inet.fi>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Handbook says that no other software is known to be able to resize NTFS...
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>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:    trhodes
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 21 17:10:25 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:    Mon Nov 06 15:10:17 GMT 2006
>Last-Modified:  Mon Nov  6 15:20:28 GMT 2006
>Originator:     Joonatan Kaartinen
>Release:        N/A
>Organization:
-
>Environment:
>Description:
There is a line in handbook that says:
"PartitionMagic is the only known application that can resize NTFS."

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.

I have used the utility a couple of times. No problems so far.

I have no idea how portable the utilities are, though.

>How-To-Repeat:
      
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From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>
To: Joonatan Kaartinen <j.kaartinen@pp.inet.fi>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: [PATCH] Re: docs/71980: Handbook says that no other software is known
 to be able to resize NTFS...
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:11:42 -0600

 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:       
 >>Date-Required:
 >>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
 >>Organization:
 >>    
 >>
 >-
 >  
 >
 >>Environment:
 >>Description:
 >>    
 >>
 >There is a line in handbook that says:
 >"PartitionMagic is the only known application that can resize NTFS."
 >
 >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.
 >
 >I have used the utility a couple of times. No problems so far.
 >
 >I have no idea how portable the utilities are, though.
 >  
 >
 >>How-To-Repeat:
 >>    
 >>
 >>Fix:
 >>
 >>Release-Note:
 >>Audit-Trail:
 >>Unformatted:
 >>    
 >>
 
 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!
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 --- 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.
        
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: murray 
State-Changed-When: Fri Mar 18 02:05:15 GMT 2005 
State-Changed-Why:  
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? 


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=71980 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: trhodes 
State-Changed-When: Mon Nov 6 15:08:34 UTC 2006 
State-Changed-Why:  
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. 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->trhodes 
Responsible-Changed-By: trhodes 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Nov 6 15:08:34 UTC 2006 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Over to me. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=71980 

From: dfilter@FreeBSD.ORG (dfilter service)
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: docs/71980: commit references a PR
Date: Mon,  6 Nov 2006 15:08:34 +0000 (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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>Unformatted:
