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From: Andrew C. <cl...@gn...> - 2003-07-28 11:33:12
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:23:28AM +0200, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > > I've added a bigger warning message, explaining the implications, etc. > > I think the warning before lead users to believe it wasn't a big deal. > > I just don't understand what's the point to allow it. Who understands how > things work would never do it, who don't they might try. If /proc/mounts and /etc/mtab are broken, you still want to permit users who know it isn't mounted to resize. > At present one of the biggest "ntfsresize" problems is how DiskDrake > integrated with ntfsresize. There are cases when ntfsresize refuses to do > any modifications. DiskDrake ignores this and just does a repartitioning. > No any kind of ntfs resizing, just repartitioning. In these cases it warns > "all your data will be lost" but many people ignores this because they were > told ntfs resizing is non-destructive and they believe it. True, for the > majority of people but if ntfsresize isn't called sure it is destructive as > all these people have learnt later on. Perhaps stronger language needs to be used? "Are you really sure it isn't mounted?" Cheers, Andrew |
