Hard drive partitions question

[bil992]

Hi, I'm thinking about installing openSUSE in a dualboot setup with Windows xp which is currently installed. I know that during the Linux installation process I will configure how much space from my current hard drive that I want to partition for Linux. My question is, once it is installed and everthing, when I boot into linux, will I only be able to see files on the linux partition, and vice versa when I boot into windows.

Sorry if this is a stupid question...

One more thing, whats a good standard size HD partition to set up for linux?

[falko]

You can see and access your Windows partitions from Linux, but not the other way round.

One more thing, whats a good standard size HD partition to set up for linux?

I'd use at least 10GB. The more, the better.

[ebal]

From your linux installation you can see the files from windows partition
and you need to install at your windows a ext2 - ext3 drive so you can
access the files from your linux partition.

Dont forget you need at least 2 partition the root and the swap partition