Bash script to show the progress of ntfsresize while installing Xubuntu (or other Debian-based variants) using the GUi installer and resizing an NTFS partition, only to be frustrated with the lack of zero time estimate or progress indicator.

example_ntfsresize.txt

$> sudo strace -p `pidof "ntfsresize"`  -e trace=write 2>&1 | grep 'write(1'

[...]

write(1, " 87.38 percent completed\r", 25) = 25
write(1, " 87.38 percent completed\r", 25) = 25
write(1, " 87.92 percent completed\r", 25) = 25
write(1, " 87.92 percent completed\r", 25) = 25

[...]

write(1, "100.00 percent completed\r", 25) = 25
write(1, "100.00 percent completed\r", 25) = 25
write(1, "100.00 percent completed\r", 25) = 25
write(1, "100.00 percent completed\n", 25) = 25
write(1, "Updating $BadClust file ...\nUpda"..., 749) = 749

show_ntfsresize_progress.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Used because Xubuntu installer doesn't have a progress bar for ntfsresize operations.
# Hit Ctrl+Alt+T to open a command prompt, and either use wget to download this file, or
# just copy and paste this text into a file show_ntfsresize.sh, then use chmod +x to make
# it executable, and bam, run ./show_ntfsresize.sh! :D

sudo strace -p `pidof "ntfsresize"`  -e trace=write 2>&1 | grep 'write(1'

# (note: requires ntfsresize to actually be running, i.e. the output of
# `pidof "ntfsresize"` is not blank/null)

Very Useful! I was installing Ubuntu and used the GUI tool to resize my windows partition, which doesn't have a status monitor. After a long wait I was concerned that it had frozen/stalled, and was able to run this command from the terminal which shows the percentage climbing.

I found this while google searching several years later and it allowed me to see the progress of a gparted ntfs resize operation after the gui froze when i tried applying it, but it was still doing what it was supposed to do in the background. Thank you for posting this! Otherwise I would've been stuck wondering it was actually still working or if it had just silently nuked my drive.