[ltp] question for dual boot people

[Joel Ebel]

If you care about windows at all, then you you should use NTFS for it. 
FAT32 cripples windows, and makes the filesystem very inefficient and 
insecure.  While there are methods of getting write support to NTFS from 
within linux, I still do not trust them.  I don't want a bug to destroy 
my windows partition.  Read only works ok, so I will frequently copy 
copy files from NTFS to linux from within linux, but not the other way 
around.  I do as many people here have already said, and have an 
intermediate FAT32 partition called scratch where I can put files that 
need to go from linux to windows.  I used to be use explore2fs 
(http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm) to read linux 
files from within windows, but I now use reiserfs in Linux, and I have 
not known of any such comparable tool.  So for me, I must use the 
scratch partition for any OS to OS transfer besides windows to linux 
from within linux.

Joel

Vincent Touquet wrote:
> For the people who use a Windows version and Linux
> on their Thinpad: do you go with NTFS for Windows,
> or do you stick with FAT32 ?
> 
> best regards,
> 
> v