Anaconda bug when resizing NTFS partition?

[Waleed Harbi]

It seems a bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431124 , try use
ntfsresize http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsresize before you start
the installation.

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure if anyone else has experienced this but I ran into an issue
> installing F9 on my wife's laptop. During the NTFS partition resizing
> process the progress bar went back and forth rapidly and there was no disk
> activity. After going to the console and checking 'top' I noticed that
> anaconda and Xorg were eating up all the CPU and leaving nothing for
> ntfsresize. I 'renice'd Anaconda and Xorg to 19 and ntfsresize to 1 and it
> made progress but it was still very slow.
>
> In the end everything worked out fine but if I was a novice it would have
> been a very frustrating (well actually it was) and BAD user experience. Can
> the installer be modified in some way to prevent this from happening or is
> this just a plain old bug?
>
> The system is a HP/Compaq Presario V5000 with an AMD Turion ML-32 1.8GHz
> and ATI Radeon M200 chipset.
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>
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