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Subject: Re: [OT] Linux distro that will read an NTFS partition... need some help[OT]

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 22:05:40 02/08/04

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On February 09, 2004 at 00:48:29, Peter Skinner wrote:

>Right now the drive is NTFS, and is 35.1 GB and I have heard that NTFS is better
>for that size of a partition. Would I kill anything converting it to FAT32?
>Would I lose performance?

Originally I wanted to use a FAT32 partition as a shared partition between
windows and linux on a dual boot machine. One thing I tried to put on the
partition was the CCC archive files. There are many thousands of files, and the
FAT32 filesystem had a problem with that. The limit for files in one directory
is around 65,000 or so, so I had to put those on a NTFS filesystem, and had no
problems. I would recommend recompiling your linux kernel with NTFS support,
unless you need write access to the partition, then you're kind of stuck with
FAT32 AFAIK.



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