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
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Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
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