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


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