Going exclusively Linux with Ubuntu 9.04?

[Bateluer]

I've been dual booting Vista and Ubuntu for a while, but I end up spending on my time in Vista.

I'm already familiar with equivalent software use, Wine, etc. Here's a question though.

I have several hard drives. 2x500GB, 2x1TB, and 1x160GB. One of the 500GBs and both TBs serve as data storage. The remaining 500GB drive is partitioned between Vista and applications. The 160GB is currently disconnected. All of them are formatted with NTFS.

Obviously, the 500GB that's partitioned will be blown away during the Ubuntu install, but what are the long term effects of NTFS storage partitions in Linux? I've dual booted before and I've been able to access the data without issue, but its never been a long term thing.

 

[Gooberlx2]

I'd think you would be fine. At this point, NTFS implementation in Linux should be fairly mature. In fact, if you used something like gparted live cd, you could probably kill the vista partition and resize your ubuntu partition to take the space.

I'm not sure if there are any defrag/scandisk/integrity-type utilities for NTFS in Linux though. Hopefully someone else will chime in.

 

[VinDSL]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2
I'd think you would be fine. At this point, NTFS implementation in Linux should be fairly mature. In fact, if you used something like gparted live cd, you could probably kill the vista partition and resize your ubuntu partition to take the space.

Yep, that's what I would do...

I love GParted! Until recently I was using GParted via the Live SystemRescueCD,

SystemRescueCD is great, but you kinda have to be careful about implementing Ntfs3g during boot up. If you get dingy and forget which (Windows) partition you want to resize, or whatever, you'll screw the pooch!

Now I'm using GParted via the Puppy Linux 4.2 Live CD. It loads faster than the SystemRescueCD Live CD, and there's less of a chance of making some silly mistake or oversight during the boot phase.

Anyway, yes, by all means. GParted will handle these tasks with ease!