Subj : Re: Badblocks on NTFS
To   : alt.linux,comp.os.linux
From : Poly-poly Man
Date : Sun Feb 27 2005 10:11 am


Ghost wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> can I safely use badblocks to check surface integrity with -n
> (non-destructive read-write) on a NTFS partition without losing data?
>
> Thanks
Lucky you! I can't even mount NTFS partitions at all! You can use
Knoppix for that, though, and I don't think you'll lose data.
Feeling terribly unlucky, 
Poly-p man

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