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]
