[HLUG] hard drive partitioning advice

[dicegeorge at hotmail dot com]

I've now got a huge 1.5TB disk as a data disk in my desktop machine.
It's dual boot - though I almost always use Ubuntu not Vista.
However as Ubuntu reads and write to NTFS but windows cant write to EXT3
I guess I shall format it as NTFS.

And how to partition it?
In the past when I split up huge hard drives into smaller partitions
I found it a pain when each had a bit of free space and I wanted to cram 
something else on-
better to have just one big partition with one bit of free space.
That's when 20GB was huge.
But what advice do you HLUGers have on partitioning for me?

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From: "Morven Lewis-Everley" <m.lewis.everley at googlemail.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 12:19 AM
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [HLUG] EXT3 from windows

> I think I have used this in the past: http://www.fs-driver.org/
>
> If it is the software, it adds ext2/3 to the list of formats recognized by
> windows, and so the drives are visible in my computer.
>
> Mo
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:12 AM, dicegeorge at hotmail dot com <
> dicegeorge at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> i asked how to read my ext3 partition from windows xp,
>> one solution could be:
>> Explore2fs
>> from
>> http://www.chrysocome.net/explore2fs
>>
>> but i dont think it integrates with windows explorer, which is what i'd
>> like...
>>
>>
>> somewhere at nixcraft it says:
>> it does not enforce security permission from windows operating system.
>>  so does that mean you can use it to read other people's data?
>>
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