Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
I looked into this a couple of months ago and decided that writing a
file of exactly the same number of bytes as the original was pretty
limiting. Presumably I'd have to do a size check each time to make
sure I wasn't going to hose the NTFS filesystem.
Joe
You won't hose the filesystem, the file simply won't be resized.
Typically, when you open a file for writing, it is truncated - on such
an NTFS system that will not be the case, any data not overwritten will
remain intact. I suppose if you write too much you'll get a no space on
device error or the like, this seems to be a Try It And See case.
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