Re: Windoes XP and RedHat Linux

From: P.T. Breuer (ptb_at_oboe.it.uc3m.es)
Date: 11/28/03 

Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 16:40:13 GMT

Stephen Speicher <stephen@speicher.com> wrote:
> I guess I was not very clear. I do not think there are any
> Windows files on the second disk, but just that Windows
> recognizes it as part of the system. I think all of Windows is on
> the first drive.

Well, so you have nothing to do, except delete whatever partitions are
currently on the second disk.

> I intend to devote the entire second drive to Linux and keep the
> first drive for Windows. During the RedHat installation can I
> define the entire second drive as FAT32? Can RedHat store and use

No - you'd be crazy to! You want to use it for linux, not windows.

> all of its Linux system files on a FAT32 filesystem? Also, will I

No, it's not even a unix file system.

> lose any disk speed using FAT32 as compared to the usual Linux
> Ext2?

You will lose more than "disk speed". You will lose permissions,
owners, access times, soft links, hard links and everything else that
makes up a unix file system instead of an msdos one. The idea is crazy.
If you are dead set on it, at least use umsdos as an overlay fs! But
the idea is just crazy! Why? All you have to do is make a fat32
partition somewhere if you want to write things to a windows area, or
install a windows driver that allows access to an ext2fs. Why all this
putzing?

Peter

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