Call me kooky

Since windows is stupid and dumps a bunch of crap to c: I needed to put more space on that partition.  No problem, I’ve got a lot of free space on another partition.  I’ll just use gpartd to move it around.  Boot ubuntu from the cd and promptly forget linux doesn’t  switch to the BNC connector like it should.  After rebooting a bunch of times and generaly freaking out I boot into “safe” mode graphics.  Load gpartd and shuffle the partitions around.  A side note here, do ONE operation at a time.  The vesa graphics apparently don’t like power management, so I ended up with a blank screen not knowing if gpartd had finished or not.  And no way to login to the machine over the network.
Turns out I might have been saved by a bug in gpartd that makes it crash when rescanning devices.  Then it turns out my ntfs drive is not clean.  Chkdsk doesn’t work 90 percent of the time so in desperation I booted a recent ghost disk that includes a “live cd” windows on it and was able to run chkdsk from there.
Over a week…. to fix something simple…. fuck you ntfs.

The other side of this is whoever thought placing game data in My Documents needs to fucking die.  Horribly.  To add to that, games that don’t tell you they didn’t save are very annoying.  I’ve been playing fallout 3 and the saved data is pretty large.  Guess where it wants to store that data?  Yup, on the drive with no space.  And it just doesn’t say anything when the save fails.  Thanks fuckers.