U can use gparted to partition ur disk as ur desire. I wud recommend at least 4-5 partitions. U cud have ext3 on all of them or use reizerfs (another jfs), fat, etc depending on ur need. I usually have a fat32 partition which I share between the linux and the pre-installed vista. This is no longer necessary with tools like ExtIFS (http://www.fs-driver.org/). I think u can read/write on an ext3 as well. I usually avoid writes from windows since it results in file system checks when booting into linux.
U cud use a stable Ubuntu 7.10 live CD for gparted (the one on hardy is a little dicey) or if u have a distro already on ur box u shud be able to fetch the tool using any package manager now. Saifi Khan wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Ashish Sheth wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:00:39 -0000 > > From: Ashish Sheth <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:ashish_sheth_2005%40yahoo.co.in>> > > Reply-To: <[email protected] > <mailto:twincling%40yahoogroups.com>> > > To: <[email protected] <mailto:twincling%40yahoogroups.com>> > > Subject: [twincling] external disk > > > > hello friends, > > > > i bought a external disk to keep my data and it is size is 400gb. > > please tell me good way to partition the disk for use with linux. > > > > cheers > > Ashish > > > > Interesting. i recently bought a 500 GB IDE disk, casing and USB-IDE > converter. Then i assembled it to make an external USB disk. > > Here are some test results formatting a single partition. > > 1. format with NTFS : 12 hrs 34 minutes > > 2. format with mkfs.ext3 -j option : 11 minutes > > My suggestion, go with ext3fs with journal (-j) option. > > Hope this helps. > > thanks > Saifi. > >
