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Originally Posted by Andrew Michaels  I'd like to get suggestions on the best way to go about this. Do I put Windows in a partition only large enough to hold itself, or should I make it big enough for games too? Can Windows read files off the Linux Partition and vice versa? |
I'm dual booting XP and Ubuntu, so I can tell you what my experience is. You'll want to have a partition for Windows that's large enough for any software and data you want Windows to be able to use. It can't read any Linux filesystems to my knowledge (and there are many of them). Linux can read/write the Microsoft FAT and FAT32 filesystems, but those are limited in terms of how many gigabytes a partition can be (2 GB for FAT and 4 GB for FAT32) so most people use NTFS now (which goes up to 256 TB).
Linux can read NTFS and has some write support, but I think the write support is limited to overwriting existing files. And last I checked, it was recommended not to use the NTFS write support on Linux because of reliability concerns. So in summary, Windows can't read Linux, Linux can read Windows but I'm not sure about write support. I have my NTFS partitions mounted as read only.