Just out of interest, did gparted display an error that it failed to resize the NTFS filesystem? I can reproduce this problem here, but only with an error displayed by gparted (and yes, it does then go on to damage the NTFS filesystem).
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: ubiquity => gparted -- Gparted should return "1 Cancel" when its operation fails https://launchpad.net/bugs/46961 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs