FAT is only of any use if you have Windos lying around. If you don't you can
afford to reformat it with a _decent_ filesystem, like Ext2 or (better yet)
ReiserFS. Also, without Windos you won't be able to defrag or check the
filesystem for errors.
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:52, James S Bear wrote:
> But if you do this, Jesse, you're going to have that free space using up
> space with nothing on it that Windows had before. Why not just delete
> everything off it and have a cute little fat partition?
>
> Quoting Robert MacLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > removing the partition is the best way to make sure windows is dead.
> >
> >
> > Robert MacLean
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jesse Hepburn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 3:22 PM
> > Subject: [newbie] Uninstalling Windows
> >
> > > Does anyone know how I would go about uninstalling windows? Can I
> >
> > just
> >
> > > delete the partition and remove the mount point and lilo entry, or
> >
> > is it
> >
> > > more complicated?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Jesse
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