I can see what you are saying here. ext4 or GFS is as good or better for LINUX as NTFS is for Windows. I think one of the distros I looked at had an ext format option during installation. I want this to stay on the flash drive presently, but I can see where the install program needs to forget about FAT32 and go with ext or GFS. That makes distro selection a little easier because only one or two have an NTFS option at all.
Very good and thanks, Patrick On May 22, 1:54 pm, Roy <[email protected]> wrote: > Sometimes you encounter a question which should not be asked. This is one. > > Use a Linux file system for Linux and a Windows file system for > Windows. There are good reasons for this. Each is developed to take > advantage of the their own file format. Linux file systems are fast, > reliable, fully journalled, support more characters and longer file > names, and almost never need to be defragmented. In fact many of the > biggest companies in the world rely on them. It is the backbone of the > internet. I would not trust my data to anything else. > > The simple solution is to reformat the SSD and be done with it. > > File system comparison:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems > > Roy > > On 22 May 2010 14:22, Patrick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > My SSD is NTFS and it does work better then FAT32. My flash drive > > is formatted to NTFS and works better, except for the scanning > > machine which needs FAT32. Haven't had any lost files since NTFS. > > NTFS is the more current technology for newer computers. I just want > > everything to be the current NTFS system. This LINUX distro does > > boot and work if installed on NTFS but I need to be able to fix things > > up a little bit even if getting a different distro is easier. > > > I guess I need to learn to install files, it's like DOS I guess. > > I wish there was a program installer for this LINUX distro but > > the authors are certainly silent. I installed a program and it > > executed > > from a desktop icon, but I deleted the icon, and I think that made the > > program uninstallable somehow. Later it could not be executed after > > unarchiving. The archiver said "symlink not valid operation not > > permissible". But five minutes earlier it executed oK after > > unarchiving the .tgz successfully. Tried everything to reinstall it, > > even reformatting everything. Had no success with tar.gz files at all > > so I am waiting to get some info or an install program. > > > No rush anyway just a hobby. > > > THX. > > > Patrick > > > On May 22, 11:02 am, John Ohm <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I guess my first question would be why do you want a NTFS partition for > >> Linux? Are you trying to be able to share files between Windows and > >> Linux? Install a thumb drive bootable Linux instance but retain the > >> usefulness of the thumb drive for windows file storage? By letting us > >> know the end need/use, perhaps we can provide better > >> suggestions/directions. > >> John > > >> On 05/22/2010 11:51 AM, Patrick wrote: > > >> > Being new to Linux I cannot find a smaller Linux that will install to > >> > a NTFS drive > >> > or a NTFS flash drive. I found one but it doesn't have an install > >> > program and > >> > isn't widely supported. .tgz files are hard to find and there is no > >> > install program > >> > for other packages. I need a NTFS Linus with an easy install program > >> > so I > >> > can pick the programs from other packages than .tgz. > > >> > Any clue as to which ones they are. Definitely don't want a Linux > >> > partition. > > >> > THX. > > >> > Patrick > > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > >> Group. > >> To post a message, send email to [email protected] > >> To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > >> For more options, visit our group > >> athttp://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > > Group. > > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > > For more options, visit our group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
