[TriLUG] gparted won't resize an ntfs partition

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2012, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

> Q1. How does the new disk have bad sectors on it? It appears that all the bad 
> sector info was carried over with the ntfsclone files.

from googling, it appears that ntfs keeps its own copy of 
the bad sectors in the MFT. If you copy your files to a 
clean disk, the record of the bad sectors on the old disk is 
copied to the new disk. chkdsk only adds new bad sectors to 
this list, it doesn't sync the list to the disk.

Joe

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