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re: formating one or two partitions
Monday, August 1, 2005 at 9:48 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Samuel
(34 messages posted)
I have no real problems either. I have winXP and all my win programs installed on
a large NTFS partition. I have a second partition with system recovery data, two
partitions for Libranet Linux (one reiserFS and one swap), and a FAT32 shared partition
for datafiles (so I can access it from both OSes). I've had no problems that I can
trace to NTFS. I have had some network sharing problems, but I think that's just
winXP being a pain.
On Sunday, July 31, 2005 at 8:21 pm, wcleve1 wrote:
>The issue with NTFS has less to do with formatting than with security. NTFS allows
>security down to the file level whereas FAT32 only allows to share level. In a networked
>environment this is important. In the average home with a single PC this is less
>important but additional security is rarely a bad thing to have when connected to
>the internet, for example.
>
>As for partitioning, for me the solution is simple and certainly not worth lowering
>the discussion into another dreary MS bashing session. Make a Windows 98 or DOS
6.22
>boot diskette then use it to boot a machine to the command line and partition and
>format a drive using either FAT or FAT32 as desired. Then reboot and go about your
>business. One advantage of a FAT32 partition is that it is accessible from a floppy
>whereas NTFS is not. Well, it is but let's face it, it's a nosebleed. Install an
>imaging or partioning app on the FAT32 partition and you can do pretty much all
the
>important tasks using a floppy to boot and access files.
>
>If you want the additional security features of NTFS, essentially a requirement
in
>a networked environment, then use Windows to format a drive using NTFS. This just
>isn't as complicated as some of you are making it out to be. It's mostly a matter
>of choice.
>
>Despite what MS bashers claim, no one is being forced to use any particular form
>of OS. If they were, there would be no choice - which is what I sometimes think
Macaholics
>and Linux zealots want. But there is a choice of several OS's out there along with
>the features/benefits that each may offer.
>
>Another thought... consider that the average user, that is, the person who goes
down
>to the big box electronics store and buys whatever's on the shelf or buys from mail
>order outfits like Dell and Gateway, could care less about the partitioning scheme
>on their machine. All they want is to be able to fire up the machine and have it
>work the way they want it to.
>
>It would seem that as good as Apple is at making it seem that Macs can do things
>that are unique to the Mac (which they aren't) you can't ignore that nearly 88%
of
>computers out there are running Windows. Either there are millions upon millions
>of stupid people buying PCs who should be buying Macs - a pretty imperious and self
>important perspective - or PCs running Windows aren't really as troublesome as some
>bashers make them out to be.
>
>WCleve
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