Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

2004-10-10 Thread Scotty Fitzgerald
Just wanted to say thanks for the replies! Considering these replies, I think I will just make a seperate ext3 for home, and manually save a second copy of a document if I want. Thanks again! --- Scotty Fitzgerald On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 17:40:06 +0200, David P James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

2004-10-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 01:59:20PM +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote: 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.

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

2004-10-09 Thread David P James
On Fri 8 October 2004 07:22, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: Can that FAT32 structure handle all of /homes files? If you do this, make sure you don't try to use maildir format mail folders in your /home partition - this is particularly the case if you use KMail which now defaults to maildir in

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

2004-10-09 Thread Beans
Olav wrote: Why not like this: - mount your Windows partition to some mount point like /mnt/windows - create a symlink named My Documents in your home to point to the folder with the same name on the Windows partition It keeps the dot file clutter away from Windows, it wouldn't know what to do

FAT32 as mount for /home?

2004-10-08 Thread Scotty Fitzgerald
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

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

2004-10-08 Thread 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

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

2004-10-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 13:59:20 +0200, Andrea Vettorello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

2004-10-08 Thread Olav
Op vr 08-10-2004, om 13:22 schreef Scotty Fitzgerald: 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

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

2004-10-08 Thread Olav Lavell
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

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

2004-10-08 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Friday 08 October 2004 13.22, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: 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

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

2004-10-08 Thread Michael Graham
Olle wrote: BTW, I don't really see how backing up the home directory would be enough, at least for me. I tend to make lots of changes system wide so that I get the same settings for root as my ordinary user account, and half the time it is just easier to make the changes in the existing

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

2004-10-08 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 08 October 2004 03:22 am, Scotty Fitzgerald 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