On Ma, 15 iun 10, 21:13:11, ABSDoug wrote: > If this isn't on topic, sorry ahead of time & perhaps you can point me in the right place? > > I've been reading up on having a separate partition for your /home > files. For quite some time, I've been using a ntfs partition named > "storage" as it makes re-install or fresh install of OS much easier. Yep. > While it's WAAAAAY neat that two different distros of Linux can share > the /home partition, I still need MS at times. I figure I can't be the > only one, but after looking on the net, I couldn't decide the best > way. I could use Linux to pull files off of the MS XP ntfs partition > easy enough, but it seems cheesy. All the options to allow XP to see > the Linux partition have permission issues as well as hidden > extensions that can't be hidden. Dangerous trumps cheesy. It would > seem grabbing what I need in XP partition from within Linux is the > answer... is there something I've overlooked? I'm gunna get into > virtualization at some point, but I'm just not ready to nuke XP, there > are times it's the only thing I can get to work (like my Netbook > internal 3G) If this is a single-user system it should be enough to have all the shared data on the NTFS partition and have a line like this in fstab: LABEL=storage /home/abs/storage ntfs-3g uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=113,dmask=002,users 0 (labels are safer than device names and I assumed abs is your username) The uid= and gid= parameters should match your uid and gid. Use 'id' to find them out (most probably 1000). Also make sure you install the package ntfs-3g. For the other parameters see 'man mount'. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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