Newbie to linux OS

[abimaran]

I'm suppose to start to Linux OS. I've little bit of experience in fedora. What is your ideas? How can I manage it with Windows? I mean, handling files on both, how can I use the files in Linux, which is from Windows?


Thanks for the help.

[techieMoe]

I'm suppose to start to Linux OS. I've little bit of experience in fedora. What is your ideas? How can I manage it with Windows? I mean, handling files on both, how can I use the files in Linux, which is from Windows?


Thanks for the help.

What kinds of files are you looking to share between them? Linux can read your NTFS (Windows) partition just fine, but the other direction is a little more work. Office documents can generally be used back and forth using OpenOffice. Image formats are pretty universal, as well as music files as long as you have the right codecs installed.

Details, please.

[abimaran]

Thanks for the reply. Can we use both file systems back and forth? I know Windows based on NTFS, but, Can a Window OS read the Linux files? Do I need to install any plug-in?

[benali72]

Windows OS can not read or write Linux files. However you can install a free program so that it can (just google on "windows read linux files" to find it).

Linux OS can both read and write Windows files (NTFS, FAT, etc) without any special or additional software.

But here's a better solution --

Create a "data partition" separate from both operating systems where you store all your data files. Make this an NTFS partition. Then both Windows OS and Linux can read and write all the files on your "data partition."

This is also a nice solution because it separates your data files from any operating system... good in case you ever want to replace or remove an operating system.

Cheers

[abimaran]

Thanks benali72. Basically, I'm asking about the pen drives which are used in both OSs back and forth. So, there is no problem in accessing if I partition the pen drive as NTFS?

Thanks a lot.

[techieMoe]

Thanks benali72. Basically, I'm asking about the pen drives which are used in both OSs back and forth. So, there is no problem in accessing if I partition the pen drive as NTFS?

Thanks a lot.

Most pen drives come formatted in FAT32, which reads and writes just fine in all modern operating systems. There's no reason to reformat if they're already in FAT32.

[oz]

Basically, I'm asking about the pen drives which are used in both OSs back and forth. So, there is no problem in accessing if I partition the pen drive as NTFS?

Hello and welcome!

As noted above, FAT32 is used on most pen drives by default. It works quite well, too, unless you have files that will exceed 4GB in size, in which case you really need to move to NTFS.

[abimaran]

Thanks to both techieMoe and ozar for your valuable help. I'm a SE student and want to practice Linux for my future careers. What is your advices on changing to Linux from Windows?

[oz]

What is your advices on changing to Linux from Windows?

Check the link in my signature for lots of good information on getting started with Linux. My personal suggestion is to setup a dual boot system with Linux and Windows so that you can learn about Linux as you have time, but you'll still have Windows just in case you should need it. When the right time comes, you can remove Windows altogether.

Best of luck to you with it.