On Friday 09 September 2005 11:36 am, 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
You never want to convert NTFS to Fat. You lose a lot of security, above and beyond anything else. A much better option, if you have to share files between OSs is to create a FAT partition specifically for that. Linux has no problem reading fiels from NTFS, but bad things sometimes happen when you try writing to NTFS. And that's because MS refuses to release the tech specs on it for the public to use. Which is why most drivers are specifically written with write turned off. So, create a small fat partition for transferring files from Linux to Windows. And just read the files from whatever directory they are on in Windows (/mnt/windows/whatever).
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