Quoting Michelle Lowman <
mlowman@firstlinux.net>:
> I'm sure there is someone here more knowledgeable about this than I am,
> but if I remember correctly from my MCSE courses, you really don't need
> NTFS for a typical user. The new NTFS has a lot of security goodies
> (very fine-grained permissions, etc.), but the average user will
> probably never use them. And I think that if the user ever decides to
> dual boot with Linux, he'll have a much easier time trying to write to a
> FAT32 partition than an NTFS partition.
My boss's new Sony laptop has the drive split into two partitions. Windows XP
Pro is on a FAT32 partition and the empty partition is NTFS! I guess they want
to make sure that the customer can get to the OS if you need to boot from a
floppy. eh, come to think of it, the laptop doesn't have a floppy!
Dennis Kibbe
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