From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 4 4: 9:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from logatome.micronet.fr (logatome-2.francenet.fr [193.149.96.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37B03152B4 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 04:09:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from e-masson@kisoft-services.com) Received: from kisoft-services.com (Nantes10.francenet.net [193.149.110.74]) by logatome.micronet.fr (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22921; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 13:04:11 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <37D0FD27.408435E2@kisoft-services.com> Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 13:06:15 +0200 From: Eric MASSON Organization: Kisoft Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [fr] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Ovens Cc: charon@freethought.org, Mark Allen Cockrum , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd/WinNT question.. References: <3.0.5.32.19990904013546.026f2e70@mail> <19990904114350.A290@marder-1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. 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