On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 12:45 -0500, Mark Wallace wrote: > 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.
I generally don't access MS-Windows OS partition, hence the Second NTFS Data Partition. > > 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. I have had DVR box Running XP MCE2005 for several years without a single virus. The box has no additional protection software. It is not used for email and rarely used for browsing. In my opinion users download virus's not Windows. > > 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. I never had this issue personally. > > 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, I've been dual booting for several years, with only the occasional annoying permission issue mentioned earlier. > > 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. My occasional boot into MS-Windows partition is usually for Turbo Tax or similar. > > 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. In order to pick up the "savvy" I need to be educated and experienced. I am doing all I can to get experienced, getting educated is the tough part with unanswered questions such as this one. > > 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. I only dual boot on my laptop, which is difficult to swap hard drives. > > 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. Don't think I'm there yet... ;) > > > On 11-03-04 12:00 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Send mhvlug mailing list submissions to > > [email protected] > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > [email protected] > > > > You can reach the person managing the list at > > [email protected] > > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > > than "Re: Contents of mhvlug digest..." > > > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > 1. How do YOU, format shared (dual boot) NTFS? (ew) > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > 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? > > Message-ID:<1299245322.3103.9.camel@Mini> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mhvlug mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > > > End of mhvlug Digest, Vol 43, Issue 4 > > ************************************* > > _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 2 - MHVLUG 8th Anniversary - Show and Tell Apr 6 - Introduction to IPv6 May 4 - Inkscape
