force mount option

[Varrun Ramani]

Hi
Im Varrun, a student of Amrita University,Amritapuri. I am new to the mailing list.
I would like to add a feature to the GNOME Project viz. adding a FORCE Mount option to the existing window that crops up when a disk formatted in ntfs is not safely removed in windows. The only existing solution is mounting through the command line with the -o force option.It is currently very inconvenient to do so and also a headache for newbies. I wish to implement it.
I would be glad if anyone could guide me in doing so in any way possible

Thanks & Regards
Varrun Ramani

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[Christian Kirbach-2]

On Fri, 15 May 2009 11:55:47 +0200, Varrun Ramani <varrunr@...> wrote:

> I would like to add a feature to the GNOME Project viz. adding a FORCE  
> Mount
> option to the existing window that crops up when a disk formatted in  
> ntfs is
> not safely removed in windows. The only existing solution is mounting

I am not a good programming advisor but wouldn't it be saver to mount the
partition read-only?
Additionally an integrity check should be performed on the not-unmounted  
partition to ensure
file system integrity before mounting read-write.


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