Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?
Just wanted to say thanks for the replies!
Considering these replies, I think I will just make a seperate ext3
for home, and manually save a second copy of a document if I want.
Thanks again!
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Scotty Fitzgerald
On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 17:40:06 +0200, David P James <dpjames@rogers.com>
wrote:
>On Fri 8 October 2004 07:22, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote:
>> Can that FAT32 structure handle all of /homes files?
>
>If you do this, make sure you don't try to use maildir format mail
>folders in your /home partition - this is particularly the case if you
>use KMail which now defaults to maildir in ~/Mail. FAT32 can't handle
>the ':' character used in the filenames of maildir messages.
>
>The suggestion of someone else to make a symlink from your Windows 'My
>Documents' folder to an equivalent in your /home partition (such as the
>more sensible 'Documents') is a good one.
>
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