On Friday 09 September 2005 12:08 pm, 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. > > Anne
Anne, you're putting yourself at some amount of risk by leaving that partition as fat32. I'd run the conversion on that as soon as possible.
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