On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Steven Buehler wrote:
> On Jul 19, 2005, at 10:57 AM, Chuck Hast wrote:
>
> > I have to have XP on the thing (corporate req, and have some
> > software that I have to use under it).
> >
> > I am of course going to put Linux on it, so what I need is to get
> > some input as to the best proceedure to follow in order to put the two
> > os's on the machine. I plan on setting up the 80G disk as follows:
> > 20G NTFS
> > 20G VFAT (common access for both linux and the other os)
> > 40G Linux
> >
> > Any recommendations or should I do something different?
>
> The obvious: install Windows first, then Linux.
>
> If you use ext3 (or ext2) for your Linux partition, there is a
> Windows utility that will allow you to read the Linux partition as an
> additional drive in Windows (and, in the case of ext2, write to it;
> ext3 is read-only).
>
> Unless you need to use encrypted/compressed file system or IIS in
> Windows, I see no need to use NTFS.
It's more efficient in terms of wasted space than is FAT32.
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