Re: [LUG] Sony Lagdog, etc

[Adrian Midgley <amidgley2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 16 July 2004 23:14, Julian Hall wrote:

> Always keep your boot disk handy (as a friend of mine recently reminded
> me).

> One thing I will say is that Windows XP defaults to NTFS on installation
> which I think is a bad idea.  I always change mine to FAT32 because I have
> a software AND a hardware firewall between me and the internet and more
> sense than to open a dodgy file in an email.  Therefore a bog standard
> Windows 98 disk does me fine :)

NTFS is a much more robust filesystem than FAT32, I prefer it for data.
(obLinux: I prefer ReiserFS or ext2/3 _of course_)
There is some sense to putting the NT operating system on a partition 
formatted with FAT32 because it makes it more accessible when it goes wrong.

SuSE can write to NTFS.

-- 
Adrian Midgley                   Open Source software is better
GP, Exeter                       http://www.defoam.net/


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