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[james]

Hi all, another day in paradise. Ive got 120GB HD, actually its only 
112GB. Heres how I plan to partion,
30GB-XP / 10GB-root / 14GB-Fat / 2GB- swap and 56GB for Linux. How does 
this look, any suggestions/tips would be appreciated.
cheers James

Rene Bartosh wrote:
> On 17/08/06, james <james99 at clear.net.nz> wrote:
>> Thanks guys, I am now on bbrand, halla, hallea, bugger it, praise
>> someone. and yes  I will need help partioning. On a forum, which I cant
>> find at the moment, had some info, anyway Ive downloaded fsdrive and
>> what I get from this I don't need a fat32 partion and xp- ubuntu can
>> interact Any help would really be appreciated..
>> cheers James
>
> If you want to share files between either win2k or winxp and linux
> installed on the same machine, you will need to have the windows root
> partition (thats C: in windows-speak) as a fat32 drive. However as
> this is not recommended for security and performance, the best
> compromise is to have C: as an NTFS partition (this is the default
> IIRC) and have a seperate fat32 partition to keep files on that you
> wish to access from both OSes.
>
> If however you have a windows machine and a linux machine on a
> network, file systems don't matter at all because you just use samba
> to share files/printers (normal windows file sharing - SMB or CIFS).
>
> Regards,
>
> Rene
>