GParted is giving me a wrong error message, which makes troubleshooting rather hard.
I've got an NTFS partition, 100% full with one file (the .vdi for a Win10 VM using VirtualBox). I'm trying to resize it, and have freed up some space before the partition - it's at the end of the disk. But if I try to enlarge it, or simply to move it left into the unused space, I get the error in the title.
How can I extend this partition? I've copied it as a backup, so as a last resort I'd delete the file from it and recreate, but really I'd like to make another backup before doing that and I don't have room to do so.
Full GParted output:
GParted 0.30.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize
Libparted 3.2
Move /dev/sdb2 to the left and grow it from 117.79 GiB to 133.42 GiB 00:00:01 ( ERROR )
calibrate /dev/sdb2 00:00:01 ( SUCCESS )
path: /dev/sdb2 (partition)
start: 65546240
end: 312580095
size: 247033856 (117.79 GiB)
check filesystem on /dev/sdb2 for errors and (if possible) fix them 00:00:00 ( ERROR )
ntfsresize -i -f -v '/dev/sdb2' 00:00:00 ( ERROR )
ntfsresize v2017.3.23 (libntfs-3g)
Device name : /dev/sdb2
NTFS volume version: 3.1
Cluster size : 4096 bytes
Current volume size: 126481330688 bytes (126482 MB)
Current device size: 126481334272 bytes (126482 MB)
Checking for bad sectors ...
Checking filesystem consistency ...
100.00 percent completed
Accounting clusters ...
Space in use : 126482 MB (100.0%)
Collecting resizing constraints ...
ERROR: Volume is full. To shrink it, delete unused files.
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