Op vr 08-10-2004, om 13:59 schreef Andrea Vettorello:

> 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),

No you're correct.

> so IMHO not a good idea to use for home...

I think it's not much of an issue if the computer is used mainly by one
person, and if he is the owner of the mount point what could go wrong?



-- 
Met vriendelijke groet,
Olav.


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