On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 11:22:13 GMT, Scotty Fitzgerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
