[ltp] pre-installation advice?

James Knott linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:13:07 -0400


I have a FAT32 partition, and moved my "My Documents" folder to it.  I 
then created a "My Documents" sym link, in my home directory to it.

Also, given that the FAT32 partion is automatically converted to NTFS, 
how do you prevent it?


Kevin Krause wrote:
> The issue is that (as far as I know) NTFS can only reliably be mounted
> Read Only, so you'd need the extra FAT32 partition. I'd consider it more
> convenient if you don't need a separate FAT32 exchange partition. If
> you're using XP much, NTFS + separate exchange partition may be more
> useful, though.
> 
> James:
> 
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>>Why is NTFS an issue?  I used Partition Magic to resize and had no 
>>problems.  Also, it's a good idea to create a FAT32 partition and move 
>>the "My Documents" folder there, to make it easy to work on files from 
>>either OS.
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