Quick question on Ubuntu with NTFS

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Hi,

Just a quick check; is it OK to have a NTFS formatted partition for Ubuntu? Or should I do FAT32? Or, does Ubuntu do it by itself/let you choose? I ask this because I have a 40GB partition for Ubuntu, which is currently formatted to NTFS by Windows... I was going to install to that.

Thanks a lot, hoping to install it in a few minutes, just got to make the Live CD!
 
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Umm... I'm not sure if it's possible/a good idea. Do you mind me asking why you want to use NTFS or FAT32 on Linux?

Edit - Oops, I think I may have misunderstood that. Do you actually want Ubuntu to run on an NTFS partition? Or do you just want to be able to access an NTFS partition from within Ubuntu?
 
Thanks for the reply, just as I was editing you posted...

The partition is already formatted by Windows to NTFS, so I was wondering whether Ubuntu will do the hard work and sort it out for me... or whether I have to manually change it somehow.

Thanks.
 
Ubuntu will need to be installed to ext3 ideally (you can't install to NTFS, but you can install over it and repartition - Ubuntu will handle this, so there's no need to change anything yourself). However, you could set up a separate NTFS/FAT32 partition and allow both Windows and Ubuntu to read/write it if you're dual booting. NTFS would be preferable, as FAT32 has various annoying limitations.
 
OK so my current paritions are like this:
40GB - ACER (C) - NTFS - Windows XP Home installed on this
40GB - UBUNTU (D) - NTFS - blank - ? ready for Ubuntu ?
13GB - RECOVERY (E) (soon to be renamed as SHARED) - NTFS - blank

Sorry, I should have mentioned, I am dual booting.
 
You'll need a swap partition for Ubuntu as well. If you delete the partition you have set out for Ubuntu you can tell the Ubuntu installer to use the unpartitioned space and it should sort the partitions out for you.
 
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