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Old 07-06-2005, 03:13 AM   #6 (permalink) Top
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Originally Posted by StimpE
...for a single partition linux install, can you tell me which partition type to format the drive with? the different types sort of confuse me, not like windows partitioning, where i know the differences of ntfs vs fat system, thanks.
Just about any Linux filesystem is superior to FAT or NTFS, but I recommend ReiserFS for general purpose usage. It's fast, solid, and flexible. For a typical single-partition setup you want to make a root partition '/' and a swap partition which is equal the amount of RAM you have. Feel free to post in our Linux forum if you have any more questions about Linux.

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