>   First, a question: if the disk was mounted by root on the origin system,
> then I'm not sure it is safe to mount it again after it has been in another's
> hand. 

That brings up an interesting point.  Is the FS code robust in the
face of malicious tampering with the disk?  Eg. Can a disk be edited
in such a way that it will panic the kernel?  Even after an fsck?

-wolfgang
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