[colug-432] Introduction and distro preference question

[Joshua Kramer]

> Last I heard, NTFS support on Linux was still kind of hackish. You might
be
> better off with a vfat space, plus separate storage spaces optimized for
> each OS. Or just virtualize Windows entirely.

In my experience, NTFS usage has been rock-solid, if a little slow.  I'm
using it via the fuse-ntfs-3g modules that come bundled with CentOS.  Among
my collection of external drives, most are either XFS or ext4, but I have
one ~160G drive that I formatted NTFS so I could share files larger than
4gb between my Windows and Linux systems.  It hasn't been any trouble at
all.

The only caveat is, it is much better to initially create a NTFS filesystem
on Windows.  On Linux there is a mkntfs program, but in my experience the
filesystems created with that program don't play well under Windows.


On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Rob Funk <rfunk at funknet.net> wrote:

> On Saturday, February 01, 2014 08:47:36 AM Dan Kaiser wrote:
> > Sounds like a good idea to pick a Debian based distro at first (because
> > I'm familiar) and then try many others virtually and branch out as time
> > goes on.
>
> I'd agree with that.
>
> > I have only used VirtualBox (VB) under OS X, but will have to do some
> > playing with KVM and others if available. VB had the limitation of only
> > running 32-bit systems. If I can find one that will host 64-bit systems I
> > can nuke my win7 partition and only use it virtually when needed.
>
> I just recently installed 64-bit OS X on VirtualBox running on 64-bit
> kUbuntu. I haven't tried it with Win7 though.
>
> > My current plan is to dual boot the distro of my choice along with win7
> > (it came with the computer so why not) on a smaller mSATA drive, and
> > have the standard HDD be shared storage (vFAT or NTFS).
> >
> > Anyone using a similar set-up and have any warnings or tips for setup?
>
> Last I heard, NTFS support on Linux was still kind of hackish. You might be
> better off with a vfat space, plus separate storage spaces optimized for
> each OS. Or just virtualize Windows entirely.
>
> --
> Rob Funk <rfunk at funknet.net>
> http://funknet.net/rfunk
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