[Techtalk] Linux on NTFS?

[Marize Pommot-Maia]

On 1/11/06, Tracey C <grrliegeek at elenari.net> wrote:
> You wrote Kenneth Gonsalves->
> > On Wednesday 11 Jan 2006 2:15 pm, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> >> Can't you just allocate one NTFS partition for MS-Windows XP, and
> >> format the others to be something more Linux-native, like ext3 or
> >> ReiserFS?
> >
> > its possible (probable) that winxp did this on installing.
>
> Yes, Windows is horrible about insisting that it take up your whole hard
> drive during the installer.
>
> > Mandrake
> > for example can shrink your xp partition and create other linux
> > friendly partitions while installing through a neat gui - i am sure
> > other distros have similar utilities
>
> Mandrake's disk partitioning manager is wonderful. It's easy to use and
> stable. Mepis, which is Debian based, uses QTParted during the installer
> to manage partitions. It is also easy to use and stable.
>
> --
> Tracey Clark
>
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I've been using  SystemRescueCd -  http://www.sysresccd.org/  to deal
with partitioning and
reparing disks.  I came across it when I got into trouble trying to
use qtparted to resize a NTFS partition.

Best,
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Marize Pommot-Maia
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