Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

[Andrea Vettorello <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 11:22:13 GMT, Scotty Fitzgerald
<sfitz007@bestweb.net> wrote:
> 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
> 

IIRC FAT32 lacks user/group and the default attributes (rwx, correct
me if i'm wrong), so IMHO not a good idea to use for home...

You should find some windos programs to read (only?) ext2 partitions
(never used myself).


Andrea