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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
