* Rob Weir (rweir@softhome.net) [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.
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