Re: NTFS mounting
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 20:28:21 -0800 Vineet Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Rob Weir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021229 10:39]: On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 02:16:03PM -0800, nate wrote: Bruce Park said: How safe is NTFS read-only mounting? I know that writing to it is very dangerous. I read on the kernel mailing list once, long ago(at least a year) on the topic of mounting read only. If the driver is coded right and ties into the kernel right there should be nothing written to the disk if it's mounted as read only. But there have been cases(I think the thread at the time was about NTFS, then someone brought up ext3) where even when mounted read only the kernel will happily write to the filesystem anyways. I'm sure that this particular issue with ext3 was resolved long ago.. I'm fairly sure that mounting it read-only is pretty much completely safe. I mount 2 NTFS partitions read-only every time I boot, and when I boot back to Windows XP (exactly once a week out of sheer nauseating necessity) I never get any complaints. My filesystems seem fine. YMMV. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- One nation, indivisible, with equality, liberty, and justice for all. When I mount an ntfs filesystem it seems to be only readable for root and not for users. Is there any way to change this? regards, Wim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NTFS mounting
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Wim De Smet wrote: When I mount an ntfs filesystem it seems to be only readable for root and not for users. Is there any way to change this? Hi Wim, Add something like this to your /etc/fstab: /dev/sdax /winntfsdefaults,ro,user,uid=x,gid=x0 0 Adjust the x'es to your situation and you will be able to use your NTFS partition as a normal user. HTH Grx HdV -- J.A. de Vries aka HdV Delft University of Technology Computing Centre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NTFS mounting
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 02:16:03PM -0800, nate wrote: Bruce Park said: How safe is NTFS read-only mounting? I know that writing to it is very dangerous. I read on the kernel mailing list once, long ago(at least a year) on the topic of mounting read only. If the driver is coded right and ties into the kernel right there should be nothing written to the disk if it's mounted as read only. But there have been cases(I think the thread at the time was about NTFS, then someone brought up ext3) where even when mounted read only the kernel will happily write to the filesystem anyways. I'm sure that this particular issue with ext3 was resolved long ago.. I'm fairly sure that mounting it read-only is pretty much completely safe. -rob msg21435/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: NTFS mounting
* Rob Weir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021229 10:39]: On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 02:16:03PM -0800, nate wrote: Bruce Park said: How safe is NTFS read-only mounting? I know that writing to it is very dangerous. I read on the kernel mailing list once, long ago(at least a year) on the topic of mounting read only. If the driver is coded right and ties into the kernel right there should be nothing written to the disk if it's mounted as read only. But there have been cases(I think the thread at the time was about NTFS, then someone brought up ext3) where even when mounted read only the kernel will happily write to the filesystem anyways. I'm sure that this particular issue with ext3 was resolved long ago.. I'm fairly sure that mounting it read-only is pretty much completely safe. I mount 2 NTFS partitions read-only every time I boot, and when I boot back to Windows XP (exactly once a week out of sheer nauseating necessity) I never get any complaints. My filesystems seem fine. YMMV. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- One nation, indivisible, with equality, liberty, and justice for all. msg21533/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
NTFS mounting
How safe is NTFS read-only mounting? I know that writing to it is very dangerous. bp _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 3 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmailxAPID=42PS=47575PI=7324DI=7474SU= http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsgHL=1216hotmailtaglines_smartspamprotection_3mf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NTFS mounting
Bruce Park said: How safe is NTFS read-only mounting? I know that writing to it is very dangerous. I read on the kernel mailing list once, long ago(at least a year) on the topic of mounting read only. If the driver is coded right and ties into the kernel right there should be nothing written to the disk if it's mounted as read only. But there have been cases(I think the thread at the time was about NTFS, then someone brought up ext3) where even when mounted read only the kernel will happily write to the filesystem anyways. I'm sure that this particular issue with ext3 was resolved long ago.. as for NTFS I have read over the past year or so that whenever you mount an NTFS volume to run a special tool which flags the filesystem dirty, forcing a chkdsk when the MS OS boots to try to prevent any curroption. http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/man/ntfsfix.html that looks to be the tool though it only mentions using it when writing to the disk. depends on how paranoid you are I suppose. I personally wouldn't use the linux NTFS driver unless it was an emergency. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ntfs mounting
Hi, does anyone know how to mount a ntfs partition in linux, i have installed the ntfs modules but linuxconf only lists my msdos filesystem not my ntfs or fat32 file syses, what lines do i need to add to fstab so they are automounted on boot
