On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Orlando Andico wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Ian C. Sison wrote:
> ..
> > I remember someone once replied to an announcement that a tool was now
> > available to _fix_ NTFS filesystems that were trashed by the linux NTFS
> > write module.
>
> no, this is how it works:
>
> 1) mount NTFS on Linux read-write
> 2) do your evil junk
> 3) unmount it
> 4) run the fix tool
> 5) next time Win2k runs, the Win2k fsck will have to be run
>
> In the past, without (4) Win2k's fsck would die horribly. So, what that
> "fix tool" does is merely reduce the damage to NTFS sufficiently so that
> Win2k can fix it.
>
> All in all, I wouldn't mount NTFS read-only.
you mean read-write... right? (",)
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