David Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I keep word/staroffice docs in several different os'es (debian is my
> primary), and it's getting to be a PITB to manually synchronize
> everything across partitions.
>
> Does anyone have a simple yet elegant way of handling this? I don't
> want to reinvent the wheel or make this overly complex.
I have debian on several partitions - hamm, slink and potato. I
have my home directory on a separate partition, which mounts on /local
on each distribution's partition. (/home/bob is a symlink to
/local/bob.) Thus I can access my mail, correspondence, etc. from any
distribution. (I have a similar setup for /usr/local, which I use to
build my packages.)
This could be extended to your situation. If your alternate OS
is DOS or Windowsxx, which aren't smart enough to read other file
systems, you could keep all your word/staroffice docs in one directory
or partition in the DOS/Windows partition. Set up your /etc/fstab to mount
this directory/partition on a convenient mount point, with appropriate
options for that file system.
You mentioned several os'es. If the third one can read
DOS/Windows file systems, you should be home free. If not, I don't
know how you would handle it.
Bob
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