I don't know what exactly you mean by "not common" but ntfs-3g upstream
is buried by all short of Ubuntu specific bug reports for quite long
time. If NTFS support is a low priority for Ubuntu then would you please
make an official statement somewhere we could point people, so they
won't have false
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 73227 ***
>From ntfs-3g upstream: yes, depending on the kernel version and other
issues, the file system type (fstype) can be: fuse, fuseblk, fuse.ntfs-
3g and fuseblk.ntfs-3g.
The 'ntfs-3g' sub part of the fstype should stay in the future but it's
not available
Parted (what gparted uses for partition table manipulation) doesn't
touch NTFS at all so it can't destroy it. What it did was that it
changed the NTFS partition start to an incorrect place in the partition
table, so it became completely inaccessible.
Unfortunately neither gparted nor testdisk can
Resizing a partition having a filesystem consists of three different
steps:
1. resizing the filesystem (ntfsresize)
2. resizing the partition (libparted)
3. coordinating the above two (gparted)
As being the ntfsresize author, I've investigated well over a hundred
cases in the last four years wh
