On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 19:42, John Quigley wrote: > Hello, > > I recently helped a friend install mandrake. I believe he was installing > mandrake 8.2, but anyway the kernel version installed was 2.4.18-6mdk. > > When he mounted his windows partition using the command: > > mount -t ntfs /dev/hde1 /mnt/windows > > It was mounted read-write. Is this a safe default? Everything I've read > about ntfs says that this mode is dangerous.
both read and write are still considered experimental. Write is _extremely_ experimental and frankly, dangerous. Having said that, I use read/write against windows XP NTFS (NTFS5) and have not experienced any problems _yet_. Your mileage may vary. -- Cheers dg
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