Re: Newbie Qns: How do I...

E11 <edwinlee.11@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Peter T. Breuer wrote:
>>
>> By reading. Even the instructions, perhaps?

> Excuse me...

> i made the mistake of trying to use an NTFS partition to share data
> between XP and Linux, people tell me that Linux writing to NTFS isn't
> reliable, so i re-formatted the partition to FAT32 instead.

There are plenty of HOWTOs addressing the issue of which you speak.

And there isn't any question of ntfs writing not being "reliable"! It
simply doesn't work except under very special conditions (unless you use
a very particular and new driver, or a host wrapper method that I don't
know ...) and never ever has.

> i made the mistake of using a single partition for everything under
> "/", and someone comes along and advised me to use seperate partitions
> for "/home", "/boot", etc, so i did that as well, re-partitioning not
> once but twice in the process.

That's good, but / and /home would have been the lazy arrangement
provided by the distro.

> so along the way i make the erred assumption that only a primary
> partition can be used for "/" and you come up with the theory that i
> haven't been reading what people said??

That's my theory. Whatever you wrote about that last time was too
highly confused for me to venture any more particular diagnosis.

Peter
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