You've got me back on my soap box about dual booting. It has a number
of crucial problems.
1) Because you can reach into the Windows partition to get things, you
can also by mistake corrupt your windows install.
2) If you have downloaded a windows virus while on line in Linux, you
won't know it until you by mistake put it on the Windows partition where
it might get "executed" or shall we say, execute your system. My six
year old is no longer allowed to go on line in XP because it rarely
takes him more than two weeks to download some toolbar or free game that
screws up my whole hard drive with a virus.
3) Maintaining two platforms is twice as much work. It's actually three
when Microsoft starts doing things like modifying their boot loader
which turns around and wipes out Grub. That happened to me.) Your
mounting issue is the third level of work. You wouldn't be having this
problem if your were just running Ubuntu.
4) If you corrupt one platform badly enough, you might wind up having to
kill disk your hard drive and start over. If the Windows platform is XP
and you upgrade it faithfully, that will take hours, even on a broadband
connection. I got a Windows virus once that stopped my anit-virus
software and prevented my system restore from restoring. It's a lucky
thing that I had just backed up my data. I now keep my data on jump
drives and back up to A Drive,
5) About the only things that I can't do Linux only are to upgrade my
GPS and run Windows proprietary software. If you are into heavy gaming,
that would be a problem. Wine only runs low graphics programs very
slowly and often can't find USB ports when you most need them. IT also
makes the income tax software useless.
6) Linux is different and the best way to make maximum use of it's
superiority is to be familiar with the Linux programs. Some of them are
very good but because they are free, there is nobody out trumpeting
their features. You might have something really good available for
free on Linux while you are using some out of date Windows program only
because you are familiar with it. If you were Linux only, you would
pick up the "savvy" that you need to do things in Linux faster.
If I had to use Windows, I would put it on a separate hard drive and
open the tower and unplug one hard drive and plug in the other, I have
had that much bad experience with duel booting.
Computers are good servants but tyrants as a master. If you are using
your computer for productivity, you want to see how fast you can get to
the point that you are using spreadsheets, editing images, etc., not
trying to get it to recognize partitions. You either own your system or
it owns you.
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Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 08:28:42 -0500
From: "ew"<[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [mhvlug] How do YOU, format shared (dual boot) NTFS?
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Greetings all,
I tried asking this on the Ubuntu forums but, did not get an answer.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1698507
A while back I installed Ubuntu 10.04 in dual boot config with Windows
XP.
In past installs I already had a second NTFS partition prior two
installing Ubuntu. I seem to recall getting annoying permission issues
(sorry for lack of detail) when running Ubuntu and performing file tasks
on the NTFS partition. With this in mind, I figured creating the NTFS
partition during Ubuntu install would be best. Unfortunately when
creating the NTFS partition, I did not realize it was set to "Partition
Type=Linux" (see forum link for details). So now this partition
although formated to NTFS, the file system is not recognized in Windows.
It is no big deal to move data and format again. I just want to
understand what is the best way to share NTFS partition between Linux
and MS Windows in a dual boot situation.
Thanks for your input.
Eric
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