Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?
On Friday 08 October 2004 03:22 am, Scotty Fitzgerald 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
> ---
> Scotty
I prefer running Vmware or similar with a Windows guest and mounting my
home dir using Samba. This way way you have both OS available and can
use the power of Debian to manage things.
--
Greg C. Madden
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