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. > > 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), so IMHO not a good idea to use for home...
there is a not often used option: mount the dos partition as umsdos.
This allows unix to setup dos files to store metainformation.
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> You should find some windos programs to read (only?) ext2 partitions
> (never used myself).
I know this exists (L-something). dont know the name.
=Kev
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