On Friday 09 Sep 2005 17:08, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 09 Sep 2005 16:36, John Bowden wrote: > > On Friday 09 Sep 2005 15:02, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > I'm new to laptops, and need to keep XP, so I've re-sized partitions > > > and started a Mandriva install. I've reached that early crunch-time, > > > when the partition table is to be written. Before I go any further > > > are there any caveats? > > > > > > Anne > > > > I'm not sure if its still the case but linux used to have a problem > > writing to a ntfs file system unless it was on another machine, (using > > samba or one of the other networking protocols), due to m$ mucking > > around with ntfs. The answer was to convert ntfs to fat32. Though you > > then lose the file larger than 4 GB support and of course m$ can't read > > any of the linux file systems. Also remember that windoz always sets up > > a swap file 1.5 times the size of your physical memory, generally in the > > root of the c: drive > > I was surprised (but not sorry) to find that the vendor had installed > windows as fat32, so that's not a worry. I'm using around 6GB on C:\, and > have re-sized it to 12GB, so that should be OK too. You might want to make an extra fat32 partition for copying perposes and then convert the main fat32 part to ntfs as it is a little bit more secure. > > Anne
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