formatting your hard drive for testing

["Kenneth Geddings Jr." <kgiris2005 gmail com>]

i want to set up my hard drive to have three partitions one is the 
windows xp home partition, one will be my main Linux partition (for 
fedora core ) and the other will be a testing ground partition so i can 
test out latest fedora core tests and or try out other Linux 
distributions with it. i am going to use the mandrake installer to 
format and resize my hardrive but what should i set the two Linux 
partitions as what file system? and will it be easy to delete and 
overwrite a Linux partition that i will use for testing?

thanks

Kenneth Geddings Jr.
Associate Member
Free Software Foundation
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