Re: Mounting Windows Partition as /home
On 22-Aug-1999, John Foster <jfoster@augustmail.com> wrote:
> Dan Hatton wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to share user files on my machine between Windows 98 and Linux;
> > since Linux can read and write Windows partitions, I was thinking of
> > achieving this by mounting a Windows FAT32 partition as /home in my Debian
> > installation, and the same partition as \Windows\Profiles in my Windows
> > installation. Does anyone have any comments on the feasibility, advantages
> > or disadvantages of this plan, please?
I wouldn't recommend having your home directory a windows partition.
This is because the FAT32 filesystem has no concept of users owning a
file and the user having permissions on that file.
This means that a lot of unix software will think the files very strange,
and may not work as expected.
> ______________________________________
> Just a word of caution. Linux will read and write to all the windows
> files, but it will only do so as root because the entire windows drive
> has the permissions set by default to root on everything. This is not
> the case with NT, only Win 3.11, 95, 98. I find that if I keep flipping
> back and forth between an Xterm as regular user and a consol screen
> (using mc as root user and as a file manager) I have no trouble doing
> anything I want with all of my file systems on all of my drives.
You can access the files as a user by having the umask line set in your
fstab file.
/dev/hda1 /dos/win95 vfat user,noexec,umask=000
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