I have a new machine at work that has W2K Pro on a single 40Gb NTFS partition. I plan to resize the partition and install LM9 on the drive so as to be able to dual boot. Since there are some files that I need to be able to read/write from both environments and I don't have the option of converting the NTFS partition to fat32, I'm thinking I will need at least three partitions; one for W2K, one for Linux, and one to hold my working directories. I expect to have the machine for 3 years (lease term), but I don't anticipate my company upgrading W2K during that time. My current W2K install uses ~3-4Gb and I have another 4-5Gb of user stuff that I keep locally.
My questions: What are people's thoughts on a partitioning scheme? One option is 4 x 10 Gb, with 1 W2K, 1 Linux, and 2 x vfat. Do people think this will allow for reasonable bloat (oops growth) on the W2K side over the next three years (software inventory & management software, virus software)? How about the Linux side? What about vfat as a choice for the transfer partition? Would I be better to use ext2/3 and find a W2K solution for reading/writing to ext2/3? (My preference however is ReiserFS for Linux.) Any experience/suggestions for such a tool? TIA, Paul
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