From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 4 4:25:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sand.global.net.uk (sand.global.net.uk [195.147.248.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C079F151FA for ; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 04:25:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@globalnet.co.uk) Received: from p28s09a07.client.global.net.uk ([195.147.233.41] helo=marder-1.) by sand.global.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 11NDwb-0003Os-00; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 12:25:18 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id MAA00760; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 12:17:32 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 12:17:31 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Eric MASSON Cc: charon@freethought.org, Mark Allen Cockrum , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd/WinNT question.. Message-ID: <19990904121731.A696@marder-1> References: <3.0.5.32.19990904013546.026f2e70@mail> <19990904114350.A290@marder-1> <37D0FD27.408435E2@kisoft-services.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <37D0FD27.408435E2@kisoft-services.com>; from Eric MASSON on Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 01:06:15PM +0200 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 01:06:15PM +0200, Eric MASSON wrote: > Hi, > > > NT can convert FAT->NTFS. I can't remember the name of the prog > > but I think it is an option in the Properties dialogue of a (FAT) > > drive. > > You definitely don't want to do that, NTFS has the equivalent of FAT, > named the MFT (Master File Table) that should be at the start of > partition to ensure better perfs. Converting FAT to NTFS makes the MFT > being created where there are available clusters and then makes it > fragmented. NT and NTFS aren't quite reliable (boot every week at least > and chkdsk on all volumes to avoid problems), so avoid giving them more > reasons no to work properly. > I'm not disputing what you say, it certainly seems logical, but when you install NT, even on a virgin disk, it initially creates it's partition as FAT and then converts it (thinking about it, the program is called CONVERT.EXE) to NTFS at the first re-boot so does this problem/limitation not exist anyway? > Eric MASSON > -- > Any opinions expressed above | Murphy's Law Corollary : > are my own, not Kisoft's | Murphy was an optimist. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message