On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 12:30, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > N.B. This driver has now been abandoned in favour of the new one. > > driver has nothing to do with resizer. > resizing is a lot much easier than having writing support (which > assumes having resolving all interactions between vfs/mm/ntfs > regarding file holes, truncation, mapping with > compressed/crypted/with_attributes inodes and the like. > unlike having fully reliable write support, resizing does not involve > manipulating file attributes but only file system truncation or > expansion, that is only truncating/expanding fs structures.
I agree, but the original proposition from somebody was, I think, to have full ntfs support using this set of tools included in Mandrake, so I quoted this section in light of that. > > Add support for writing. > > > > mkntfs Stable Create an NTFS volume on a partition > > ntfsfix Beta Tell windows we've made changes to a volume > > ntfslabel Beta Display or set a volume's label > > ntfsresize Beta Resize an NTFS volume > > > > Note particularly the Beta status of those last three tools, and the > > warning on the front page to back up your data before using the beta > > tools... > > as of ntfsresize: > > "Is it reliable? > > Since July of 2002, when ntfsresize became publicly available, > there were success reports resizing Windows NT4, 2000, XP and .NET > NTFS filesystems on both workstation and server versions (Home, > Professional, Server, Advanced Server). NO DESTROYED FILESYSTEM > WAS REPORTED SO FAR. DURING THIS TIME THERE WERE NO CORE CHANGES > OR FIXES IN THE SOURCE SO WE SUPPOSE THE CODE MUST BE > RELIABLE. However much more widely usage is needed to state it's > stable thus we strongly recommend to have a backup of your data > (you have anyway, haven't you ;)" > > since i was able to bough a good box for 500 euros last week, i ended > in buying a box with xp preinstalled. > this was time to test ntfsresize. > it seems to works fine but mark the fs as dirty so that zindoz check > it on reboot. > we all agree it need *lots* of testing but it seems to be usable. > > of course we'll have to display a very big warning. Perhaps... Put it only in DiskDrake's expert mode. Don't enable it by default, but have a button when you select an NTFS partition that says "Enable NTFS resizing - WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL!" When you click it it brings up a dialog box explaining that NTFS resizing uses a beta tool, is experimental, data backup is highly recommended and it isn't guaranteed not to trash your data. Or at least something equally drastic :) -- adamw
