Anaconda bug when resizing NTFS partition?

[Richard Shaw]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Waleed Harbi <waleed.harbi at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Yours,
> Waleed Harbi
> If you want your goals to come true, don't sleep
>

I took a look at the bug report but it didn't seem to apply to me. I didn't
get a segfault or failure, ntfsresize just didn't get enough CPU cycles to
complete until I reniced anaconda and xorg. I searched and didn't find
anything so I'll submit a new bug.

Richard
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