2001-03-16 11:45:19

by Peter 'Luna' Runestig

Subject: NTFS R/W safe with mount 'ro' ?

Hi all!

I just noticed that one of the major distros ships their kernel with
NTFS write support turned on. Using such a kernel, am I still safe if I
mount my NTFS partition 'ro'?

TIA,
Peter
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2001-03-16 15:29:11

by Anton Altaparmakov

Subject: Re: NTFS R/W safe with mount 'ro' ?

At 11:43 16/03/01, Peter 'Luna' Runestig wrote:
>I just noticed that one of the major distros ships their kernel with
>NTFS write support turned on. Using such a kernel, am I still safe if I
>mount my NTFS partition 'ro'?

Yes.

Regards,

Anton

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