On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 15:38 +0000, James wrote:
[...]
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1               1       60801   488384001    7  HPFS/NTFS
> 
> 
> I do not want to get into HPFS/NTFS as this drive must work
> easily with both XP(vista) and Gentoo systems. It will be
> moved between many systems frequently, so the easiest 
> (least keystrokes) to auto_magically have this drive
> usable between systems is my goal, even at the cost
> of I/O performmance....

Well, there do exist NTFS drivers for Linux and, of course, Windows
already knows NTFS. Or you could reformat the partition with vfat.

The least keystrokes method would be to use a desktop environment like
Gnome or KDE and let it handle the chore for you.

--
Albert W. Hopkins

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