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From: "J.O. Aho" 
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Subject: Re: External HD & partition's - please help
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:42:35 +0100
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Neil Hindry wrote:

> What I want to do is partition the Maxtor external HD so I can use 1
> partition for Windows files and another partition for Linux files. I
want to
> do this as I can then use it to backup important data files from both
OS's.
> For information I am using Windows XP Pro & Ubuntu Linux.

I have to say I don't see the point, if it uses vfat, then there aren't
any troubles for any os to use it. When you backup from linux, use tar,
this way you can save ownership and privileges on the files without the
needed support in the vfat file system.

The advantage is that you won't be limited of slice sizes, you can
instead use the whole hard drives size regardless which os you are
backing up from.


> What I need to know is how I go about doing this?
> Do I need to reduce the size of the partition that already exists on the
> disk (I assume that when the whole HD is used it is still classed as a
> partition)?

Yes you need to reduce the vfat/ntfs slice to be able to create a new
slice to use.


> Do I reduce the partition size in Windows (that is if it needs to be
done)?
> Do I create the new partitions in Linux?

There aren't any tools in microsoft to make any other file systems than
those two microsoft has been developing (you mauy find 3rd party tools
that may be able to make some of the linux file systems).


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