On Monday 10 Mar 2003 7:12 pm, Brian wrote: > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > <html> > <head> > <title></title> > </head> > <body> > So if I understand this correctly, then the NTFS support in Mandrake 9.0 > is read-only? I did just try to write to an NTFS partition on my test > computer and it did not work. In that case, is there any third party > drivers or utilities that will allow you to write to an NTFS partition from > Linux?<br> > <br> > I would like the users home directory, i.e. - "/home/userid" to be on a > partition that is readable from both Linux and Windows. I saw in > userdrake that you can redirect the home directory. Can it be > redirected to a FAT partition from userdrake or does it have to be on a > linux FS? Of course I would prefer something that is a little more > secure, but I can probably deal with FAT32 if need be.<br> > <br> > Thanks for the help,<br> > Brian<br> > <br> > John Richard Smith wrote: > <blockquote type="cite" cite="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> > <blockquote type="cite"></blockquote> > Mandrake will not write to an ntfs partition. you need fat32.<br> > When you talk about homedrive, do you mean /home partition,<br> > because windblows will not use it. All your linux partitions<br> > need to be formatted in one of the many linux file systems.<br> > The basic linux setup is , /swap partition, /root(base) partition,<br> > In addition you can have /boot partition, /home partition, and<br> > many others. In linux /swap is the equivelant of windblows<br> > virtual memory,which is a file with preset limits,whereas in<br> > linux it's a partition.<br> > <br> > I know nothing of your hardware situation, cannot comment.<br> > <br> > John<br>
Linux can read/write to FAT32 partitions without any issue, and you could mount your /home on FAT32. However it may not be a terribly good idea to do so. Some of your Linux applications will write setup files in your user home, and may expect them to have specific permissions. Since FAT32 has no concept of permissions all the files on the FAT32 partition will have the same permissions. You may therefore find some applications may not run as intended. It would be safer to mount your /home on a Linux partition and either make a symlink to your FAT32 partition, or else mount your FAT32 partition on a directory inside your /home/user so you can access your Windows data conveniently. By default Mandrake will mount your Windows partition on /mnt/windows, but you can easily make them mount anywhere you wish. HTH derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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