(my first email to BAD list) Question about NTFS and FAT32

[Tony Godshall]

> ...other 300 gig will be for data (I do
> video, so I like lots of hard drive space). I want
> some or all of this 300 gig to be read/write
> accessible from both Windows and Linux. So I have two
> choices.
>
> 1. I can format the 300 gig as an extended partition,
> and then have part formatted as NTFS and part as
> FAT32. Linux should be able to see the FAT32
> partition, and I can share data on that.
>
> 2. I can format the entire 300 gig as NTFS, and then
> buy (for $20) Paragon NTFS for Linux
> (www.ntfs-linux.com). This allows LInux read/write
> access to NTFS partitions. Linux could then read/write
> that whole partition.

I guess I'd like to know why you want any NTFS at all?  Are you taking
advantage of any of its features?  Compression?  Probably not, since
most video is already highly compressed.  ACLs?  Probably not if you
are going to be sharing with Linux.  I can see using NTFS on the
XP-exclusive area.

Also, why 100GB for each OS?  If it was me, I'd put 5-20GB per OS and
maximize the versatile/sharable space.

Tony