What type of partition do i need? EXT3, EXT2, Fat32, Fat16?

[TheChemist187]

m installing linux on my hard drive so i can dual boot. Nevertheless im wondering which partion i need to use for teh linux; EXT3, EXT2, FAT 32, FAT 16, JFB, NTFS, XFS? Whats teh diss in NTFS and FAT 32, because so when i boot in linux (knoppix 4.0.2) teh windows partition will need to be FAT 32 so linux can write on that part of the partition. Thanks

[eadz]

For the Linux partition you should use ext3. There are other ones you could use ( e.g. xfs) but you cannot install linux on ntfs or fat32/fat16.

You might also want to make a fat32 partition for storing your files. This can be read in linux and windows.