sharing /home partition with win2k ?

[jnana]

Can anybody tell me if there is a way to share a partition between win2k and
linux? What I wanted to do was have a fat32 partition that would be my D:
drive in win2k and the /home partition in linux, but it seems that this
doesn't work. Is there a format that would make the partition available to
both and that would allow linux to use the partition as the /home directory?

If not, would it work to split the partition into two partitions and format
the /home directory for linux and the /home/me directory a fat32 partition
that would be accessible to both? As it stands now, the partition is fat32
and both linux and win2k see it, but the installation didn't install any of
the stuff that goes in /home/me and even after I copied in what I thought
was necessary, I still can't start X under the user account.

Thanks,

-j

[S C Rigler]

Maybe it would be better to mount your fat32
partition somewhere else (eg /mnt/d_drive)
and just create a symlink to it in your home
directory?

Using the fat32 partition as the filesystem
for your home directory you are going to be
giving up ALOT in the way of file permissions,
ownership, etc.

btw - All of the default user config file
usually live in /etc/skel.

-S

[Huy]

First, install Linux with out creating a separate partition for /home,
so that /home will be layed in root (/).

Once you have linux installed, login as root and mount your FAT32 to
temporary folder such as /mnt/fat. Copy home content to /mnt/fat (cp
-a /home/* /mnt/fat, the -a option tells cp to copy /home/* as a
package preserving permission and date/time stamps).

When you are done with copying /home content, verify that every is
copied then remove the /home content.

Next umount /mnt/fat and mount that FAT32 to /home.

Lastly edit /etc/fstab accordingly to have the system mount your FAT32
partition on /home at boot time.

Huy

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