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Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.



Carl Fink escreveu:
> I recommend leaving the recovery partition if you plan to keep using Vista
> at all, shrinking the main Vista partition, and creating at least three new
> ones: an ext3 partition for Linux, a swap partition, and a VFAT partition
> for data that can be shared between Vista and Linux.  Sizes will depend on
> your requirements.
>   

Now that one can write to NTFS partitions easily (ntfs-3g has been
around a long time, and I believe even the kernel ntfs mode can do
read/write), having a FAT partition seems useless.

I'd recommend, though, keeping /home in a separate partition.

-- 
Eduardo M Kalinowski
eduardo@kalinowski.com.br


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