Oops!  That completely slipped my mind, but makes perfect sense.  It's been
so long since I've actually used a dual boot system that it didn't occur to
me that vfat was an inappropriate file system choice.

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Arjan van de Ven <ar...@linux.intel.com>wrote:

> On 1/27/2010 8:25, Clayton Tino wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Ameya Palande<2am...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Did you try having /home on ext3 file system instead of FAT32?
>>>
>>>
>> No,  I did not try mounting /home on a ext3 partition as I want the
>> windows
>> installation to be able to read/write the partition as well.  I did,
>> however, allow the Moblin installer format the drive as vfat during the
>> partitioning process.
>>
>
> I sort of doubt vfat for home is going to work.
> vfat has some restrictions on file names (iirc, filenames cannot start with
> a dot)
> that is just not compatible with linux.
>
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