Hi Folks,

I have downloaded Debian and decided to give that a try.  I'm a little stuck 
however in repartitioning my hard disk.  The Debian installer says the disk has 
2 divisions:
*The first being a fat16 of about 16MB
*The second NTFS 72.3GB 
*The third fat32 about 10MB
Why does it show fat 16 and fat 32 when XP runs on NTFS by default?  
When I select to manually partition the drive (the NTFS section) it doesn't 
seem to give me an option to change the size.  I want to change it to about 
65GB to leave the rest for Linux.  Also under "use as" it says "nothing".   
Other options include fat16 and fat32 but nothing for NTFS...why?  And am I 
right in assuming Linux uses ext3 filing system by default?
In summary I want to resize my Windows partition by about 15BG less (to be left 
for Linux) WITHOUT corrupting the data.
Suggestions please-

Chris Maher.

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