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Idea #5978: put a "FORCE" button on the error message when mounting faulty NTFS USB dirves.

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #4994: Easily mount not cleanly unmounted NTFS disks.
Written by captainpugwash the 29 Mar 08 at 02:28. Category: Hardware support. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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It drives me insane when I try and mount other peoples NTFS Usb drives and they were not properly shut down by Windows. (I hardly ever run Windows now)

Ubiuntu comes up with a message saying something like; go back to the windows machine reinstall and then shut down again.

Or go to a terminal and type a heap of "FORCE" instructions to mount the USB NTFS hard drive.

Why cant we just have a force button on the cant mount error message that we can press and it does the terminal commands for us. I realise it has the possibility of NTFS errors occurring but so does forcing it through the terminal commands.
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Written by captainpugwash the 29 Mar 08 at 02:28.
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flip314 wrote on the 29 Mar 08 at 05:12
The difference is that YOU know the risks you face when you force a mount. what's joe public going to blame when he uses his USB stick with Ubuntu and he loses all his files?

I think a better option is to come up with an open source checkdisk utility for NTFS volumes so that unsafely mounted volumes can be properly repaired, rather than subjected to a somewhat risky forced mount.

TBH wrote on the 29 Mar 08 at 11:44
flip314: There is already one ;] ntfsprogs package gives you a lot of stuff ;)


I think this idea is insane. If you need to do it often, just write a bash script to force mount, but it can NOT by enabled by default. Just can't.

brokencrystal wrote on the 29 Mar 08 at 18:17
Just warn them when they push it and ask for confirmation. Sounds like a good idea to me...

slaytanic wrote on the 29 Mar 08 at 19:33
If you mount an unclean NTFS filesystem... at least let's mount it read-only so no damage can be done.

But I like the idea.

sf_007 wrote on the 30 Mar 08 at 00:15
Or even better: a button saying:
"Clean" and Mount...

flip314 wrote on the 31 Mar 08 at 06:33
@TBH: if that's the case, then there should be an option to scan and fix the filesystem before mounting.

I still really don't like the idea of forcing an unclean FS to mount, even if it's read only.

sf_007 wrote on the 16 Feb 09 at 01:08
The latest version of NTF-3G solves this problem automatically:
http://ntfs-3g.org/releases.html


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