one last question before linux!

[LongCoolMother]

i have 14.9GB of downloads on my other partition in windows (D:\). after i install linux on my primary partition, will i still be able to access these through linux? i wont have windows installed

 

[cleverhandle]

Depends on what filesystem that partition uses... If it's FAT32, then no problem - you get full read/write support. If it's NTFS... hmm. There's supposedly some support for reading NTFS partitions in a kernel module, but I don't know anyone who's actually tried it. You could probably at least copy off the old data, then reformat that partition.

 

[LongCoolMother]

<< Depends on what filesystem that partition uses... If it's FAT32, then no problem - you get full read/write support. If it's NTFS... hmm. There's supposedly some support for reading NTFS partitions in a kernel module, but I don't know anyone who's actually tried it. You could probably at least copy off the old data, then reformat that partition. >>



thanks, i wasnt sure. i use FAT32, so i think ill be okay. i was sorta nervous before because my dad does UNIX at work and he was talkin about how i have to mount the hard drive because t doesnt recognize just D:\ or something..well, see you when im in linux, wish me luck!

 

[marat]

You can get read/write to Fat

You can get read from NTFS - but this depends on your distribition. NTFS support (as well as all other features, like drivers, FAT support etc) are compiled into kernel by company that makes your distro.

Which distribution are you going to install?

 

[cleverhandle]

<< i was sorta nervous before because my dad does UNIX at work and he was talkin about how i have to mount the hard drive because t doesnt recognize just D:\ or something..well, see you when im in linux, wish me luck! >>



Well, yeah... you have to mount the partition, but that's just standard fare for linux. It has nothing to do with interoperability problems. It doesn't recognize "D:\" because that's just not the syntax that linux uses. But you shouldn't have any problems at all with FAT32.