[ltp] pre-installation advice?

[James Knott]

Tim Prince wrote:

> If you're using ntfsresize, as supplied by SuSE, there's an advantage in 
> doing it before files start to clutter up the space beyond the directory 
> and system files.  No need to do it before running XP, but ntfsresize, 
> as I understand it, can only shrink it by the empty space at the end of 
> the partition.  In fact, you probably want to make certain XP is running 
> normally, and defragment, before shrinking.  After shrinking the NTFS 
> partition, you can go back to Windows and create a FAT32 partition for 
> data sharing, before installing linux.  In my experience, SuSE 9.1 
> doesn't allow execution of files on the FAT partition, so its use is 
> somewhat more limited than it used to be.

I use the FAT32 partition solely for data files that I want to share 
between Linux and XP.  I moved the XP "My Documents" folder to that 
partition and created a link from my home directory to it.