Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 12:30, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > > 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. >
I don't think anyone said anything about read/write support. We only need resize (the argument was many XP boxes ship one NTFS partition, why I don't know since it's always a good idea to have more than one partition, by default) and ro support (which should be robust enough to have drakfont finish at least). > > 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!" What if the user has a single NTFS partition and is not installing in expert (well, is there even expert mode in DrakX now?). > > 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. > I think all the non-native resizing options in drakx/diskdrake already say that ... Buchan -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
