On Tue, 22 May 2001, Wynne, Conor wrote:
> Just how safe is NTFS write these days? Maybe you could give me some
> pointers Niall as you helped do the last one?
>
It is very unsafe. Ordinarily stuff marked "dangerous" isnt that bad but
NTFS write support is a disaster. After writing, you have te run a utility
(whose name eludes me) to force NT to check the filesystem on bootup or it
gets seriously fouled up. It came up on the LK mailing list recently. Take
a look through the archives and there is a more comprehensive progress
report available
--
Mel
Random wisdom: rm with the su action pack is not a toy
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