-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 > Care to share why you do not recommend fat 32 for your root? Sure, I'd be happy to elaborate on why I don't recommend FAT or FAT32 as your Linux system partition. The first reason is that all of the features Linux requires in a root filesystem are not supported. In particular, setting of owners and permissions to secure your files is not supported. This will most likely cause a lot of programs not to work right. A lot of them do checks for safe permissions and won't work if the right permissions aren't in place, as they should. That's the big reason I don't recommend using it as your root filesystem. I personally avoid FAT or FAT32 altogether in most cases for another couple reasons, though they are not related to Linux. First, FAT based filesystems have filesize limitations that tend to get in my way. Second, FAT based filesystems are horibly wasteful of disk space, especially with large filesystems. Those don't affect whether they can work with Linux really, they are just personal things that really get to me. > The structure I have in mind is two different hard drives, but I had > intended formating both as fat 32.Say on as it will impact the DOS > edition chosen. That should work fine, but like I've said, you should consider putting Linux on an ext2/ext3/xfs formatted partition. - -- PGP SIGNED AND ENCRYPTED MAIL PREFERED Key ID: DA522C2A Key Fingerprint: 30FA 1B4F 8499 7206 549D BC3D C87C 8CDA DA52 2C2A Joseph C. Lininger, <jbahm at pcdesk.net> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBR49zz8h8jNraUiwqAQrhWQgAkPbE7FfoVNbCkmwAm6HOQhSPHG7wXEGq ELmqdU5VUtc8gt/csKmLnO5gS/XYsaXykyuxtbDW2ng+DYlNmWjh2jNOxxoiulzO +Xsy5cNLSbjH7CW31GiEgQmvON4wBRG+6BSlLjPVogxS2LLQGpszhDrrta7hoakZ mFvXx+WEMyVtzIyeCyDq5iRtfjvDQUgeVbV6atByfOyETwrjJZrTKGDACyBzB3M/ GmjdYWeZPjCMka4RkJxSBiJXA1+rqSMCj9IGvg0mtJHHiJXVWmXl2cLKFM7Xb22a UUlIga6IOfHd+ycZH8giE2K1vBNZouk3O2fs2js9P36GufQSI6lenQ== =B1wO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
