[parted-devel] patches pile up, etc

[Otavio Salvador]

"Gary L. Greene, Jr." <greeneg at tolharadys.net> writes:

>> Otavio pointed me to a problem Debian is seeing on systems that also
>> have Windows Vista installed.  Apparently the version of NTFS shipping
>> with Vista uses a different bytes/sector than previous NTFS versions, so
>> when we align things, libparted then breaks the Windows installation.  I
>> want to fix this, but I can't find a copy of Windows Vista.  I may just
>> wait until it is released, but if anyone has a beta or something that we
>> can test with, that would be helpful.  I'm interested in fixing this in
>> 1.8.x as well as the edge branch.
>
> Hi David,
>
> You might want to talk with Szakacsits from the ntfs3g project regarding this. 
> He recently worked out the issues with ntfsresize causing issues with Windows 
> Vista to not boot. Also, I highly recommend that you get a release version of 
> Vista to test against, apparently there were a fair amount of changes that 
> actually impact NTFS since the Beta, RC, and final releases.

That're great news. David, have you contacted him?

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