[ltp] question for dual boot people

James Knott linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 06 Mar 2004 22:28:14 -0500


Heiko Rosemann wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, 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 ?
> 
> 
> NTFS for now, since it was auto-converted during the install. I'd prefer
> FAT32, since writing to NTFS now has to be done by copying the data to my
> desktop - quite complicated way of handling it. But I guess Linux will
> contain true NTFS write support sooner or later.

If you're running XP, you can move the "My Documents" folder to the 
FAT32 partition, which makes things a bit more convenient.