Hi,
I’ve windows 7 installed in my lap with three primary partitions and have 50gb unallocated space. When i tried to install opensuse 12.1 during disk partitioning it was trying to delete windows partitions. The message shown was ‘delete windows partition resize impossible due to inconsistent fs.try checking fs under windows’. And then i opted to ‘create partition’ option but was unable use the unpartitioned space(50 gb) alone to create swap, /, ext4.
Please help me out to install opensuse 12.1
Thanks & Regards
Sujan
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:06:03 +0000, annemsujan wrote:
> The
> message shown was ‘delete windows partition resize impossible due to
> inconsistent fs.try checking fs under windows’.
You need to run scandisk and do a clean shutdown of Windows (it might
need to run during boot as well). You might also run the Windows defrag
utility to try to shift the data back towards the start of the disk
(though the current defrag doesn’t do that as well as earlier versions).
Jim
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You cannot have more than 4 primary partitions.
At the disc partitioning part of the installation choose to edit the existing layout.
You could (not recommended) partition athe unused 50GB as the 4th primary partition, mounted as “/” formatted ext4. Instead of a swap partition it is possible to create a swap file after installation.
A better option is to use the 50GB for an extended partition. This appears as an unformatted “W95 Ext’d (LBA)” partition – /dev/sda4.
You will then be able to create further partitions within the extended partition.
I suggest:
2GB swap
15GB ext4 m is ounted as “/”
The remainder ext4 mounted as “/home”.
The most useful “tweak” is to select “no access time” in the “fstab options”.
Personally I prefer the ReiserFS over Ext4, until BTRFS is mature, but that unpopular here.
On 2012-01-11 17:58, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:06:03 +0000, annemsujan wrote:
>
>> The
>> message shown was ‘delete windows partition resize impossible due to
>> inconsistent fs.try checking fs under windows’.
>
> You need to run scandisk and do a clean shutdown of Windows (it might
> need to run during boot as well). You might also run the Windows defrag
> utility to try to shift the data back towards the start of the disk
> (though the current defrag doesn’t do that as well as earlier versions).
No, he doesn’t, as he is installing on free, not partitioned, space.
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Carlos E. R.
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On 01/11/2012 04:06 PM, annemsujan wrote:
> try checking fs under windows
read the error…it means “try checking the (Windows) file system while
running Windows” by ‘checking’ it means (as others have said) run
Scandisk…
also:
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/how-faq-forums/advanced-how-faq-read-only/451831-install-opensuse-alongside-win7-vista-guide.html
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On 2012-01-11 21:33, DenverD wrote:
> On 01/11/2012 04:06 PM, annemsujan wrote:
>
>> try checking fs under windows
>
> read the error…it means “try checking the (Windows) file system while
> running Windows” by ‘checking’ it means (as others have said) run Scandisk…
What for? He wants to install in the already free unpartitioned space, no
need to touch the Windows partition at all. If the install system gives
that error, it is not installing in the space the owner wants. Abort and
ask here, how to make it install where I want.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:33:06 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2012-01-11 17:58, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:06:03 +0000, annemsujan wrote:
>>
>>> The message shown was ‘delete windows partition resize impossible due
>>> to inconsistent fs.try checking fs under windows’.
>>
>> You need to run scandisk and do a clean shutdown of Windows (it might
>> need to run during boot as well). You might also run the Windows
>> defrag utility to try to shift the data back towards the start of the
>> disk (though the current defrag doesn’t do that as well as earlier
>> versions).
>
> No, he doesn’t, as he is installing on free, not partitioned, space.
I’m just going by the message he says he received, which says that a
partition resize is impossible because the filesystem is inconsistent.
Therefore, he needs to fix the inconsistencies in the filesystem and
try again.
Jim
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On 2012-01-11 22:42, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:33:06 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>> No, he doesn’t, as he is installing on free, not partitioned, space.
>
> I’m just going by the message he says he received, which says that a
> partition resize is impossible because the filesystem is inconsistent.
> Therefore, he needs to fix the inconsistencies in the filesystem and
> try again.
No, absolutely not! He is not resizing any partition. He is installing on
free, non partitioned space. Check again his message:
]> I’ve windows 7 installed in my lap with three primary partitions and
]> have 50gb unallocated space.
He has 50GB unused to allocate a 4 partitions, he wants to install there,
he is not touching any of the existing partitions (intentionally).
But the install program is trying to resize one of those, so it is not
doing what he wants to do, and so the aborted, correctly.
He wants help on how to tell the installer to install on those 50GB, that
doesn’t belong to any partition.
Whatever errors are inside the Windows partitions is irrelevant. He doesn’t
want to install there. Check carefully the full message and its meanings.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:43:06 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> Whatever errors are inside the Windows partitions is irrelevant. He
> doesn’t want to install there. Check carefully the full message and its
> meanings.
I see that. I also see a message indicating the Windows partition is
inconsistent, and that should also be fixed.
Jim
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On 2012-01-12 18:40, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:43:06 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> I see that. I also see a message indicating the Windows partition is
> inconsistent, and that should also be fixed.
Let Windows worry about that 
Linux will say that if you did something as simple as pull the plug before
time.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
thanks for the replies.
@hendersj: i did scan my disk and also defrag them. But no luck.
@robin_listas: u got my problem.
So, what needs to be done to have a successful installation in my lap.
Thanks
Sujan
On 2012-01-17 15:06, annemsujan wrote:
> So, what needs to be done to have a successful installation in my lap.
Perhaps you have to use manual partitioning, or expert partitioning, in the
installer. I can’t give you exact details, my memory of the displays is not
that good.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
I already tried with ‘expert partitioning’ but was not able to create partitions on that un-allocated (50gb) space.
Thanks
Sujan
On 2012-01-18 14:46, annemsujan wrote:
>
> I already tried with ‘expert partitioning’ but was not able to create
> partitions on that un-allocated (50gb) space.
Assuming you have less than 4 primaries, you first have to create an
extended partition in there, then create as many logicals as you need.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)