Bug#380226: [Parted-maintainers] Bug#380226: NTFS (partition) not recreated correctly after resize: incorrect start sector

[Bas Zoetekouw]

Hi Kurt!

You wrote:

> The best thing I can think of right now is that if it starts and stops
> on a 2048 sector boundery (that's not also the normal (63) boundery?)
> and the fs is ntfs 3.1, we use 2048, else the normal value.  Which looks
> so ugly.
> 
> I wonder how vista does this itself.

I don't think Vista has any problem with non-2048 sector boundaries
havne't tried it though).  The problem here seems to be that the
partition boundary is changed without changing/moving the fs to reflect
the new partition size.  Effectively, the first 2048-63 sectors of the
partition will be random data, which is confusing Vista (and rightly
so, I guess).

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