Hi Szaka,

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 12:46 +0100, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> 
> > Ok, I just committed some more fixes to ntfsresize.  It never actually
> > unmounted the volume, just exited which was very rude of it!
> 
> It's intentionally not umounted. Ntfsresize __rewrites__ NTFS and it's
> dangerous to umount because that could interfer, corrupt or destroy the
> resized, consistent NTFS.

Do you not keep the "ntfs_volume" of the mount consistent with your
changes?  If yes you should umount and it is not dangerous.  If not why
not?

Best regards,

        Anton
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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/



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