Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <40615FE5.9000605@luukku.com> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 12:16:05 +0200 From: Jani tiainen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5+ (Windows/20040302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: [OT] FAT32 vs NTFS References: <40608855.8080605@ianbrandt.com> <40609FD8.5030103@ianbrandt.com> <20040323215100.GY17229@cygbert.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20040323215100.GY17229@cygbert.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Try to figure out what happens on your system. However, if you're > running 2K or XP, I don't see a reason to keep FAT32. You can convert > it to NTFS using the "convert" tool which is shipped with all NT versions. For some reason my laptop (HP Omnibook) came with preinstalled W2k, and there is really FAT32 enabled, not NTFS... Only reason to use FAT32 is to preserve few bytes of memory or let disk data be accessible from some other system than NT/W2k/XP. But for performance reasons it would really be reasonable to use ntfs... -- Jani Tiainen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/