extended file system question
 

Is it safe for NTFS, ext3, and swap paritions to exist in the same Extended file system? Like this:

NTFS ( 20,002 Mb) Primary

Extended (19,257 Mb) Primary
- NTFS (10,997 Mb) logical
- Linux ext3 ( 7,859 Mb) logical
- Linux Swap ( 400 Mb ) logical


Parition magic let's me do it like that, but I don't want to apply it until I know if its going to mess anything up. Before, I just had that top NTFS, and the bottom Extended with only one NTFS in it. But I will add those two linux paritions if its safe.

Thanks,
Wes

This setup is ok.

Ok, thank you.

Agreed. I have sw, ext2, reiser4 (two of 'em), and fat32 in my extended partition.

Hey vector,
Do you see big diff between reiser3.6 and 4.0?

So far, it seems that things get done a bit faster, but its still too soon to tell yet. I've only had it installed for about a week, it seems to be a bit zippier. The filesystem makes in no time (under a second). So now I have a filesystem that my Windows definitely won't understand!

veritas, if you're using a kernel newer than 2.6.6, you should have very little to worry about writing from linux to your ntfs as well.

Wasn't really gunna use the ntfs with linux anyways. I just had that as a second hard drive under windows XP for organization purposes and I didnt want the linux paritions to conflict with it under XP. But i barely used it, so I just wanted to split it up and install slackware again. All is well now, I am just losing some hair over getting hardware acceleration working with my ATI PCI card...

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Have you posted a thread about your card? Which model is it? I have an ATI and have been through a lot of reading because its a video capture card with no tv. Not docs around on how to get it working. But, I have reada lot of crap about ATI cards.