On 22-Aug-1999, John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
I wouldn't recommend having your home directory a windows partition. This is because the FAT32 filesystem has no concept of users owning a file and the user having permissions on that file. This means that a lot of unix software will think the files very strange, and may not work as expected. > ______________________________________ > Just a word of caution. Linux will read and write to all the windows > files, but it will only do so as root because the entire windows drive > has the permissions set by default to root on everything. This is not > the case with NT, only Win 3.11, 95, 98. I find that if I keep flipping > back and forth between an Xterm as regular user and a consol screen > (using mc as root user and as a file manager) I have no trouble doing > anything I want with all of my file systems on all of my drives. You can access the files as a user by having the umask line set in your fstab file. /dev/hda1 /dos/win95 vfat user,noexec,umask=000
