From 1e43ec0fde07f9b668be668f3e9686050f90c7f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: szaka <szaka>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:33:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix: never move the standard information attribute into an
 extended MFT record (Faisal Puthuparackat, Szabolcs Szakacsits)

---
 libntfs-3g/attrib.c | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libntfs-3g/attrib.c b/libntfs-3g/attrib.c
index 73747c8a..7eb6772c 100644
--- a/libntfs-3g/attrib.c
+++ b/libntfs-3g/attrib.c
@@ -3920,14 +3920,15 @@ static int ntfs_resident_attr_resize(ntfs_attr *na, const s64 newsize)
 		ntfs_log_perror("%s: Attribute lookup failed 1", __FUNCTION__);
 		goto put_err_out;
 	}
-
-	/* We can't move out attribute list, thus move out others. */
-	if (na->type == AT_ATTRIBUTE_LIST) {
+	/* 
+	 * The standard information and attribute list attributes can't be
+	 * moved out from the base MFT record, so try to move out others. 
+	 */
+	if (na->type==AT_STANDARD_INFORMATION || na->type==AT_ATTRIBUTE_LIST) {
 		ntfs_attr_put_search_ctx(ctx);
 		if (ntfs_inode_free_space(na->ni, offsetof(ATTR_RECORD,
 				non_resident_end) + 8)) {
-			ntfs_log_perror("Couldn't free space in the MFT record to "
-					"make attribute list non resident");
+			ntfs_log_perror("Could not free space in MFT record");
 			return -1;
 		}
 		return ntfs_resident_attr_resize(na, newsize);