Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Error using ntfsresize

[Szakacsits S. <sz...@si...>]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> 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.

Fix the casue, not the symptom.

> Perhaps stronger language needs to be used?  "Are you really sure
> it isn't mounted?"

"IF YOU CONTINUE then it's quite highly you're about to destroy your entire
disk and crash your kernel. If everything went ok but you would experience
mysterious data corruptions days, weeks, months later on, don't BLAME ext2,
ext3, reiserfs and other kernel developers or bad hardwares but ONLY YOURSELF!"

	Szaka