[Coco] Drive freezing / data reovery (WAS: Re: Need to know

Manny cocolist at invigorated.org
Sat Aug 4 17:27:40 EDT 2007


Hex Star wrote:
> On 8/4/07, Manny <cocolist at invigorated.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Sorry, once again, I have to disagree with you. You can mount NTFS with
>> read and write privs. in newer (and probably Knoppix [SP?]) distros. I'm
>> proof of that... Besides that, he's already said that he can see the
>> wanted files on his old HDD through Linux.
> 
> I know you can mount it read and write. But the driver actually doesn't
> completely support write operations due to the closed documentation of the
> NTFS filesystem so writing to the filesystem can produce unexpected and
> unknown results.

I've never had troubles with it, and quite honestly, neither has anyone 
else that I've run in to. If you stick with current stuff, you normally 
fair better.

-M.



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