[PLUG] It's Here!!

[Michael D. Harris D.M.D.]

Over the weekend I used a Knoppix disk with Qtparted to partition my laptop hard drive which I had been running XP on for a few years.  The entire disk was NTFS before I started.

(now of course it has a huge ext3 part, linux swap, and will soon be running Gentoo or Debian...)

Mike

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> John Jordan (johnxj at comcast.net) typed this ... 
> > 1) What file system should I use? The hard disk is 80 Gb, 5400 
> > rpm. ... Ext, Reiser and a couple other possibilities, but I 
> > didn't really understand the differences. If this were your laptop, 
> > which would you choose? 
> 
> I use ext2 for the boot partition and reiserfs for everything else. I've 
> been doing this for over 6 years and I've had zero problems. Yeah, ext3 
> has more recovery modes, but most of the recovery CDs can handle 
> reiserfs and I haven't needed them (recovery CDs) for filesystem 
> problems, so why mess with success? 
> 
> > 2) Does my plan of 15 Gb for Windows, 15 Gb for Suse 9.3, and 50 
> > Gb for data sound sensible? My plan is to leave enough space in 
> > the Windows and Suse 9.3 partitions so that I can also install all 
> > programs in them that I might want to run. (My Windows 2000 
> > desktop that I am writing this on has a 15 Gb Windows partition 
> > and over the past three years I have used 11 Gb.) 
> 
> I'm getting ready to install an 80G drive in my notebook now, and 
> thinking about a partitioning scheme that will allow me to run Windog in 
> some form (VMWare? WINE? dual boot?). 
> 
> I have an old Compaq notebook with a 6G drive, and it runs XP Pro just 
> fine. So I might just reserve 7G for Windog and make one partition 
> FAT32 so it can be used from both Linux and XP. 
> 
> The only real partitioning religion I have (and this is fairly new and 
> therefore subject to change) is that I require a /tmp partition mounted 
> with at least noexec (just like my servers). I like to use a 'normal' 
> partitioning scheme on notebooks even though it wastes a little space 
> just to be consistent with my servers. 
> 
> > 3) A related question, do I really have to boot XP first? I had 
> > Otherwise the NTFS partition cannot be resized. Is this true? Do I 
> > have any other options? 
> 
> I think Partition Magic can resize NTFS partitions even if they're not 
> defragged. But I'm not sure on that. 
> 
> > 4) I know that in XP the user can disable the touchpad. I plan never 
> > to use it. I have purchased instead a Logitech USB optical scroll 
> > mouse to use with the new laptop. Can I disable the touchpad later 
> > after I have Linux installed? Or should this be done during 
> > installation? 
> 
> I like my touchpad, though I also like using a mouse. It depends on 
> whether I'm on a plane (no yard for the mouse to play in) or at my desk 
> or in a cafe (with plenty of space to roll a mouse). 
> 
> --Kurt 
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