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From: Anton A. <ai...@ca...> - 2006-11-28 23:20:49
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Hi, On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 28 November 2006 13:08, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > > There are two NTFS during resizing. The original and the resized. When > > the resizing is over then the latter is consistent and the old one is > > irrelevant. ntfsresize doesn't work like the other utilities: mount, > > modify, umount. It works like: mount and morph the original into a new > > one. > > I'm going to wait with further testing until you have sorted out this > difference of opinion. > > I guess that in this context "being mounted" is something different than > the filesystem being mounted from a linux filesystem point of view? Yes, it is a call to ntfs_mount() from libntfs which is the library provided by ntfsprogs which ntfsresize uses. > Szakacsits' statements do make me wonder though what happens if you do > (try to) mount/unmount a resized NTFS partition after resizing it, maybe > using the available "force" options. Works fine. > It also makes me wonder what happens when linux is shut down. Does it get > unmounted then after all or is that not relevant as the partition is not > mounted from a linux point of view? Not relevant. Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ |
