One thing I discovered was that putting a FAT/VFAT partition after an NTFS meant that M$ scandisk had a huge wobbly and just could not cope with the void between C: and D: (this was on modern hardware, aka an Athlon system). Since then, I tend to make the Windows partitions first, NT next and Linux last (since Linux doesn't care where it boots from).
On my current desktop, Linux boots off SCSI and Windows will boot from an IDE disk if a bootable SCSI disk cannot be found. The neat thing about this is that Windows cannot meddle with Linux partitions if you unplug the drive. :o) Antti -----Original Message----- From: Peter Barker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Well, that will vary quite widely, depending on what the machine's used for. For example, my desktop box currently looks like this: ---------------- [pbarker@bluebottle pbarker]$ df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 1968620 1437572 431044 77% / /dev/hda1 38859 13700 23153 38% /boot /dev/hda2 2048000 1383904 664096 68% /dosc -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
