[ale] Linux Kubuntu install

[Brian Pitts]

If this is the explanation, then you found a bug in ntfsresize.

"Defragmentation is NOT required prior to resizing because the program 
can relocate any data if needed, without risking data integrity."

http://man.linux-ntfs.org/ntfsresize.8.html

-Brian

Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts wrote:
>
> >> the grief.  As a guess, I'd say his system hadn't been defragmented, 
> or I
> >> should say adequately defragmented.  It sounds, too, that he's used more
> >> harddrive space in the past than he was using at the time you tried to
> >> install.  That unfortunately means that active files could easily have
> >been
> >> in the space to which the new partition was going, including updated
> >system
> >> files.  My educated guess is that's what happened to your son's 
> computer.
> >
>