Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?
Op vr 08-10-2004, om 13:22 schreef Scotty Fitzgerald:
> Hello,
> I got an official "woody" set and am now setting it up, and am
> wondering if this "bright" idea of mine is actually advisable.
> I thought that if I mounted a seperate and small partition as
> the /home directory, as well as using the same partition for storing
> documents and user files from my Windows 2000 Pro (the other side of
> my dual boot system,) that I could write a batch to backup this small
> partition to another small partition, and have all my data from both
> my systems backed up at once.
> On the surface, it looks to me like an efficient "hack," but
> I know that somebody else must have thought of this before and tried
> it. Can that FAT32 structure handle all of /homes files?
> Particularly "dot" files?!
> Thanks
Why not like this:
- mount your Windows partition to some mount point like /mnt/windows
- create a symlink named "My Documents" in your home to point to the
folder with the same name on the Windows partition
It keeps the dot file clutter away from Windows, it wouldn't know what
to do with them! Still your stuff would be easily available from Linux.
Of course, "My Documents" could be a separate partition from the Windows
system partition too.
--
Olav <betenoire@xs4all.nl>
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