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Thread ID: 32905	2003-05-01 03:31:00	FAT32 or NTFS	jackyht (3685)	Press F1

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140522	2003-05-01 08:06:00	>>Correction. It's what the M$ NT Servers use. >>An increasing number of servers are going to superiorly reliable OS's instead of the Windoze platform... sorry, I have to disagree with the "superiorly reliable" part. Despite what the nix community would like you to believe, the OS is for the most part irrelevant. In reality it really comes down to the admin. A good NT admin (I know several) could easily setup an NT server that is far more stable and secure than a *nix based server setup by a less experienced *nix admin, like me for example. I know several *nix admins too, who likewise can setup *nix boxes that are superior to NT boxes setup by less experienced NT admins. The great thing is that each of the admins I do know agree with me - Not the OS: It's the admin(s). People assume that linux is the most stable secure OS since.. well anything.. but straight out of the box it is only marginally ahead of NT in terms of security. You want the most secure OS straight out of the box? OpenBSD. As for referring to microsoft as "M$", yeah.. that was cute and clever for about 5 minutes, several years ago when the term was first coined. Now it is tired and should be left alone. Here's penny arcade's take: www.g33kflat.skankyflat.net Dont get me wrong, I do like *nix. I see the value of open source, and my network is protected by an open-source product (namely Smoothwall) BUT I take a more realistic stance and refuse to get caught up in the myths and overhyping. Over time I have also become tired of anti-MS sentiment.. it rages in NZ because we kiwis largely suffer tallpoppy syndrome. So sure, go for gold, but here's a heads up: what you are saying is now cliched and it makes you sound like a very unoriginal person, more a sheep than an intellect. As for the original question: Basically if you have to ask this question, you should go for FAT32.	whetu (237)
140523	2003-05-01 09:22:00	FAT32 is your best option, due to backwards compatibilty.. You can goto NTFS easier later, but not backwards.. UNLESSS: You have Partition Magic! Ive done it successfully 2x, and unsuccessfully 1x (Lost the data on that partition, good thing I backed up. it was only a data disk... nothing major like the OS). All up, FAT32 is accessible by DOS easier, and Knoppix, so should something go wrong, its easier to recover your system. NTFS does however add Disk Quotas to the system, which can be good in a multi-user environment if you dont want UserX to fill up the HDD :-)	Chilling_Silently (228)
140524	2003-05-01 15:35:00	Here timmy timmy timmy	raddersnz (684)
140525	2003-05-02 00:06:00	> Here timmy timmy timmy :D :p lol ;\	stu140103 (137)
140526	2003-05-02 01:31:00	> Here timmy timmy timmy Jeez Radz, get more sleep will ya! :p :D	Susan B (19)
140527	2003-05-02 04:13:00	Whetu; I couldn't have said it better; its defnitely the admin at the end of the day that determines the system, not the os... And what I really was going to say is that I read a ms kb article recently which also suggested that multiple fat32 partitions on a winxp system can degrade performance. Which was true, because converting some of the Fat32 drive sin my PC (Had 4 fat32 and 4 ntfs) to ntfs fixed a lot of really strange problems I was having performance wise.	TerryW (2183)
140528	2003-05-02 04:39:00	> ive heard that NTFS doesn't fragment, im not sure > though In XP it does it better. I had ME, and switched to XP because ME has a few holes. Whenever I chose to defrag, I had to remove ALL running processes - other than explorer.exe and the defrag utility. If I didn't then the defrag would interrupt, and never finish. And when it did finish, I would have to reboot my computer (with difficulties) to get all the nescessary processes running again. NOW I can run the defrag, search the NET, play solitaire, ... almost anything can be done while defragging an NTFS partition in XP > the main reason you would use NTFS for is security Stability, better file handling, Alternate Streams, Compression, Encryption, Object Permissions, Disk Quotas, Sparse Files, Reparse Points, Volume Mount Points, etc etc etc. and the list surely goes on. Take a look at the comparrison (www.ntfs.com)	raddersnz (684)
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