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 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 > --- > Scotty
I prefer running Vmware or similar with a Windows guest and mounting my home dir using Samba. This way way you have both OS available and can use the power of Debian to manage things. -- Greg C. Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
