Bruce Kemp wrote: > neils93940 wrote: > >> What program is available to move all the disk files to the front so >> that I can partition C: during Ubuntu installation? >> >> Essentially, need to find how to have all unused C: drive space >> consolidated onto the end, hence all files to be packed into the >> beginning. Used to be able to do this with Norton Speedisk on earlier >> M$Win OS's; but, XP appears to prevent doing this. >> >> > After doing a defrag on the MS disk, install Ubuntu over the top of MS, > there is a point in the install that asks how you want to partition the > hard drive, just tell it to use the guided partitioning on the free space. > >> ALSO, some are telling me Linux can read/write NTFS partitions. If >> so, I would use that for all the Ubuntu partitions save the Linux >> SwapFile Partition. For a while, I expect to be dual booting to be >> able to keep productively working until I can convert all I have from >> M$ to Ubuntu. Otherwise, the data partition could be Ext2 as I found >> a driver for M$WinXP which allows XP to read/write to an Ext2 >> formatted partition. Hmmmmm...... Need help on this one too..... >> >> >> I use a program on MS called ext2ifs that allows NTFS to read the ext2 >> partition. The program can be seen and downloaded from >> http://www.fs-driver.org/ >> >> >>
IMHO, you don't want or need the Linux system to be able to write to the Windows system partition and vice versa. Best to make a common FAT32 partition for data files that will be common to both operating systems and keep the OS partitions totally separated from each other. Too risky IMO, for one system could easily trash the file system of the other. -- Norm Higgs http://forbiddenpc.com http://forbiddenpc.blogspot.com https://linkedin.com/e/fpf/4018099 http://freetrafficbar.com?r=74276 To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
