[plug] NT and Linux coexisting

[John Summerfield]

> Mike Holland wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Christian wrote:
> > 
> > > a) what type should I make the partition I'm going to put it on?
> > 
> > NTFS, unless you really want to write to it from Linux, then you could use
> > vfat, with loss of security etc.  Remember to always create a partition
> > with the OS that will use it. ie dont use linux to create the NT
> > partition.
> 
> Yeah, I don't really care about being able to access it from Linux - if
> I really need to transfer stuff between the two I can do that over the
> network.  As for the partition type, do you mean that I should just
> leave it as "free space" and let NT mark the partition type and make the
> filesystem itself?  I can't find any NT/NTFS partition type under cfdisk
> so I guess I don't have many options too.

Let NT make the partition. It uses the same value as OS/2 uses for HPFS - 
it does not actually mean either but rather "installable filesystem."


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