Windows XP file systems

Tue, 23 Jul 2002 21:32:39 -0700

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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