Back in the days of FAT partitions, and when partitioning disks with data was somewhat risky, the first distribution I used was Phat Linux [1], which was instal

Back in the days of FAT partitions, and when partitioning disks with data was somewhat risky, the first distribution I used was Phat Linux [1], which was installed in the same partition as Windows as well. The main side effect I remember was that all files appeared as executable to Linux. I don't recall how/if it handled symbolic links. [1] https://www.linux.com/news/phat-linux/ https://www.linux.com/news/phat-linux/