On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 09:43:55AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > Dan Hatton wrote: > > > > I'd like to share user files on my machine between Windows 98 and Linux; > > since Linux can read and write Windows partitions, I was thinking of > > achieving this by mounting a Windows FAT32 partition as /home in my Debian > > installation, and the same partition as \Windows\Profiles in my Windows > > installation. Does anyone have any comments on the feasibility, advantages > > or disadvantages of this plan, please?
Just a suggestion since I really don't know much about it, but have you thought about UFS? It supposedly let's you have a usable unix partition on a fat filesystem. Might solve your problem. Ben