Philip Armstrong wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 10:11:12AM +0100, Gregory Matthews wrote:
>> How safe is it to mount -o force to clear the log file? the man page
>> is a bit vague on this.
>
> Ideally, don't do that. Given your application, just mount the volume
> read-only, then the unclean log file won't be your problem & it'll be
> sorted out by the next time that volume is mounted under windows.
if only - the whole point of this hardware is to write onto the disks!
What is the worst that could happen? force mounting an inconsistent file
system? Or will that fail? I've seen mount failing and requiring ntfsfix
(or whatever its called) will -o force override this too?
GREG
>
> Phil
>
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