Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On 1/27/2010 8:25, Clayton Tino wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Ameya > Palande<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Did you try having /home on ext3 file system instead of FAT32? >>> >> >> No, I did not try mounting /home on a ext3 partition as I want the >> windows installation to be able to read/write the partition as well. >> I did, however, allow the Moblin installer format the drive as vfat >> during the partitioning process. > > I sort of doubt vfat for home is going to work. > vfat has some restrictions on file names (iirc, filenames > cannot start with a dot) that is just not compatible with linux.
there's a windows driver that's reputed to be able to read ext2/3 filesystems. I had this recommended to be by several people, but it didn't work our for me - www.fs-driver.org - I've struggled with an external device that needs to be shared between Linux and Windows. It seems it's an old project that may have gotten a bit stale, it doesn't like current filesystems which are created with a larger inode size, and it doesn't pay attention to the journal (suggesting ext2 would be the best choice) and it didn't like my experiments at all, no matter what I did. But it seems to have worked for some people, and could be another approach to pursue - instead of having Linux understand the windows filesystem, have Windows understand the Linux filesystem. _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
