Re: XP and NTFS

Jay B wrote: 
in my opinion,
all systems should use ntfs. i dont think twice about it now!

there is no reason not to. no significant downside.
the big benefit is a more stable disk structure.
if you crash a fat32 system, you have a greater chance of corrupting your operating system than if you crash under ntfs.

If you're working in a mixed environment, say you dual boot with Linux, then having FAT32 partition helps when you want to swap media between the two. Also note that the 32GB limit is a soft one imposed by Microsoft (who wants people to use NTFS); the GNU version of fdisk allows you to create volumes up to around 2TB (note that FAT32 does an individual file size limit of 4GB).
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