Sorry for the general title but I wanted to explain what I am doing before I ask a question. I have set up 3 partitions on my hardrive.
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|Windows | Downloads | Linux
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I am installing Fedora Core 6 on the Linux partition and have Windows XP Pro in a Windows 2003 domain on the first partition. The Downloads partition is where I will keep all my programs and utilities in case I have to reinstall Windows again. Tried using Acronis Disk Director Suite to re-partition but had to reinstall anyways due to a currupt sector on the hard drive (damn windows, or maybe damn Acronis?).
Anyways I have two questions. The first is regarding the Linux installation and the second is regarding both OSs being able to read the “downloads” partition.
1. It’s been a while since I installed Linux and although I can click through and install a logical group volume, it just doesnt feel right. I remember 100 mb for the boot partition and double your ram for swap (2GB) but how do I allocate the rest of the partition? /etc, /home and the rest.
What would you recommend for the partition sizes?
Also would it be better to install Linux in the middle partion? I know it won’t make a difference to where the download partition is but I’m wondering if I will get better performance if it is closer to the MBR?
2. What do I format the downloads partion as so both operating systems can read them? I know how to set up SMB shares but Windows will not be running when I try to access from Linux. I know there are NTFS drivers for Linux so I guess my question is should I format as NTFS and attempt to install a NTFS driver on Linux or should I format as FAT32? (It’s been a while since I used Linux).
Thanks,
NuSkool