Sorry for the blank post.
joe@actionline.com wrote:
>> You might try resizing back to the original size, then chkdsk, then try
>> GParted again, letting it resize the filesystem and partition together.
>
> Tried that. It also did not work.
> In fact, by using ntfsresize back to the original size of 159G,
> it responded to say 100% complete, but now there is only 148G
> instead of the original 159G showing in sba5. Amazing.
Not really. There's overhead with any filesystem (FAT, inodes, etc),
which is what makes up the difference.
> In utter frustration, I finally just hit the DELETE button on sba5
> and it won't allow that either. It said it couldn't do that if
> there were any mounted partitions in sba1 (which of course includes
> the Linux partitions (or file systems) that are within sba1.
>
> Utterly incomprehensible.
Not really. I presume you did something that mounted a filesystem in one
of the partitions, but given that you haven't even told us *how* you're
running GParted, it's sorta hard for us to guess. :(
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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