Re: Partitioning hard drives...

rich wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:59:30 +0100, Ian Rawlings wrote:

On 2008-06-23, rich <rich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

All the rest is divided up into ext3 data partitions. If you do any video
editing its worth having a NTFS partition for big video files. I also have
a small fat32 partition which is shared with a winxp virtual machine.
Hmm, how big are your files? ext3 can handle a file up to 2 terabytes
in size, although with a 1k block size it'll only handle 16 gigabytes
in a single file.

Or is there some other reason for using NTFS for large files? I'd
have thought ext3 would be better as it's actually supported ;-)


You are of course correct, its more to do with the software I use (win vid
editor running in wine) that seems to balk at big files unless on my ntfs
partition. I find that ntfs-3g works fine and is handy for my portable usb
hdd that gets shared with a windows box.

As a matter of interest, which video editor do you use under wine? Would you recommend it? Native video editors under Linux are one area that's definiely not quite there yet ...
Simon

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