Re: Feature suggestions: optionally placing home folder into separate partition during ubuntu install

2011-01-07 Thread Phillip Susi
On 01/07/2011 09:38 PM, Jan Claeys wrote: Since some time ntfs-3g supports mapping between Windows and POSIX users and permissions though: http://www.tuxera.com/ntfs/release-ntfs-3g-2009-11-14/ Oh, neat. If you set up these mapping tables, then maybe you COULD use NTFS for /home or even /. I

Re: Feature suggestions: optionally placing home folder into separate partition during ubuntu install

2011-01-07 Thread Jan Claeys
Phillip Susi schreef op vr 07-01-2011 om 15:30 [-0500]: > On 1/7/2011 12:46 PM, Jan Claeys wrote: > > Actually, NTFS does support ownership & permissions, but it's somewhat > > complicated to configure/use it like that. > > MS reserved space to hold a posix uid/gid and mode so they can run an > NF

comments wanted on this polipo-tor-1.3 deb pkg

2011-01-07 Thread travis+ml-ubuntu-devel-discuss
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Re: Feature suggestions: optionally placing home folder into separate partition during ubuntu install

2011-01-07 Thread Phillip Susi
On 1/7/2011 12:46 PM, Jan Claeys wrote: > Actually, NTFS does support ownership & permissions, but it's somewhat > complicated to configure/use it like that. MS reserved space to hold a posix uid/gid and mode so they can run an NFS server, but it is not supported by the Linux driver. -- Ubuntu-d

Re: Feature suggestions: optionally placing home folder into separate partition during ubuntu install

2011-01-07 Thread Jan Claeys
Phillip Susi schreef op zo 26-12-2010 om 10:55 [-0500]: > This is what manual partitioning is for. Also /home can not be on > NTFS since it does not support ownership and permissions. Actually, NTFS does support ownership & permissions, but it's somewhat complicated to configure/use it like that