Subj : Re: Badblocks on NTFS
To   : alt.linux,comp.os.linux
From : Davide Capodaglio
Date : Sun Feb 27 2005 09:05 pm

>> 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

Strange I can mount (read only) ntfs partitions every day without
problems... in fstab I have

/dev/hde2 /mnt/winxp ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0

I want to use knoppix to verify a defective ntfs partition at surface level,
but I have to be sure I will not lose data.

Thanks
Davide

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