[wplug] Question on dual boot / shared media space

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

On Wednesday 20 August 2003 14:05, Kuzman Ganchev wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:21:40AM -0400, Vanco, Donald wrote:
> > Questions:
> > 	I'd like to use NTFS for performance under Windoze, but have
> > concerns about write support under Linux.  Does anyone have any
> > real-world experience, or a clear understanding of what the real (Linux)
> > concerns here are all aboot?
<snip>
> A friend of mine swears that fat32 is like playing russian roulette
> with your data, but if you really need to run both linux and windows
> on the same machine, that's probably what you'll want to do.

On the first part, I'd say this is an exaggeration. Filesystems weren't 
blowing up before wide NTFS adoption (2000). Also, the company I work for 
still goes with FAT on XP installations, and there haven't been any huge 
problems, since local security is not a concern (all machines are 
single-user). *Of course* NTFS is vastly superior than FAT, but for 
standalone machines that need high compatibility, I agree that FAT is the way 
to go.
 
As far as partitioning is concerned, 2-3G for each OS and the rest in a big 
happy /data partition should be fine.

A bitter experience (my last personal encounter with XP, actually) I'd like to 
share is this: DO NOT allow XP's disk manager to "fix" the partitions you 
created from Linux's fdisk (should it offer to). I've blown away my entire 
partition table just by clicking "OK" on a very user-friendly and polished 
dialog box :-P

-A
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