-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Saturday 16 June 2007 14:49, Alexey Eremenko wrote: >> Hi Ken Schneider >> >> read: >> >> The primary advantage to this technology is no need to repartition a >> hard drive at all. A very welcome feature to win-noobs alike. > > The partition structure is independent of the type of file system > created on those partitions. I.e., it is not necessary to repartition a > drive (that's already partitioned) in order to install Linux. > > Now, if what you want is to have both Linux and Windows installed on a > given partition, that's another thing. As far as I know, there's no > overlap between the directories used by Linux and those used by > Windows, so if Linux could operate with a root file system that is > NTFS, then this should be feasible. As far as my limited understanding > goes, NTFS is sufficient to support a root file system, but I can't say > for sure whether that is true. Clearly, the kernel would need to > incorporate the NTFS-3G driver so the kernel and the running system > could write to its NTFS root volume. > > >> -- >> -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" > > > Randall Schulz
The concept of having a Linux on the same File System as Windows is not new (it used to be an option with some distros). However where you start hitting issues is with fundamental incompatibilities in how the two OSs describe files and some basic file formats. For instance in Open Office and Eclipse one needs two distinct environments to work on documents or projects and NTFS has a very different security mechanism to Linux, I think in attempting to create simplicity one well may be in fact creating much unneeded complexity. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGdO0VasN0sSnLmgIRAq/gAKDtYqdD3ok7Dd02LqawEVTY9xc49ACg1eZW OaLMzR/rz2tsgISFXLf22jo= =5bRF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
