Re: Problem with partitioning -- How to format hard drive and reinstall Windows?

From: Mike McCarty (mike.mccarty_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 11/16/05

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    To: akonstam@trinity.edu, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
    
    

    akonstam@trinity.edu wrote:
    >
    > WinXP can be either Fat32 or NTFS and Linux will work with both. If it
    > is Fat32 it can be easily mounted in Linux and read and written to.
    > However, writing too often can be bad for the health of WinXP.

    In what sense do you mean "Linux will work with [NTFS]"?

    AFAIK, writing is essentially not supported (no changes to
    file sizes, or file creations), and reading has slightly
    limited suports (file names sometimes get corrupted).

    Mike

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