Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Dec 2000 11:33:40 -0700 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: [Fwd: NTFS repair tools] |
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On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 02:00:29PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Agree. We need to disable it, since folks do not read the docs > > (obviously). Of course, we could leave it on, and I could start > > charging money for these tools -- there's little doubt it would be a > > lucrative business. Perhaps this is what I'll do if the numbers of > > copies keeps growing. When it hits > 100 per week, it's taking a lot of > > our time to support, so I will have to start charging for it. > > I am very firmly against removing something because people do not read manuals, > what is next fdisk , mkfs ?.
We should put in a nastier message then. It WILL DESTROY DATA IRREPARABLY and I've got even more bad news -- because it's in Linux, Microsoft is already altering the on-disk structures again, so it's about to be broken in R/O mode as well when Whistler comes out.
:-)
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