Re: Current status of NTFS support

[Anton Altaparmakov]

At 23:33 20/04/2001, Thomas Dodd wrote:
>[e-mail] wrote:
> > Also, I'll have to recreate my Linux partitions after the 
> upgrade.  Does anyone
>
>Oll you should need is a boot floppy to get back into linux and fix
>the MBR (rerun lilo?) after the Windows install.

Rerunning lilo is correct fix. But modify your lilo.conf and /etc/fstab to 
reflect eventual changes in partition names first. - You said that two 
partitions are getting merged so there might be changes...

>Don't try to write to and NTFS partition from linux.
>You probably don't want to mount the Win2k version of
>NTFS in linux either. At one point that could damage the
>filesystem too.

This is not true. NTFS driver will NEVER write to your file system unless 
it is mounted read-write. Even if journalling was implemented it still 
wouldn't write to your fs when mounted read only as long as I have 
something to say about it! Read only means read only IMO, full stop, end of 
discussion. - If you have ever seen it write to the disk when mounted read 
only please let me know as I consider this an extremely serious bug!

Best regards,

         Anton

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