Jan Elders wrote:
On Tuesday 26 April 2005 14:10, Jerry Feldman wrote: //snip
What does your fstab look like for that entry. It should look something like: /dev/hdaX /home vfat auto,users,exec,uid=<your uid>,gid=<your group id>
Initially, it is important to have exec on so that you can execute the startup scripts. I personally do not think it is a good idea to use a FAT file system as your /home. There are other ways to accomplish what you want. In any case, if that's what you want, then go for it. You can also use /home/<username>/<dirname> And make it a subdirectory of your /home/<username> directory.
You may want to remove ",users".
First,I agree with Jerry about /home. Here is what I am doing in daily practice : I have a Windows/Linux setup with a "regular" ext3-home under Linux. As a kind of bridge between Linux and Windows I have a FAT32 partion, which is registered in fstab as : /dev/hda6 /windows/D vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=utf8 0 0
So any data that I really want to share between Linux and Windows is stored on /windows/D. All Linux-specific userdata still resides in the Linux genuine /home.
I have something similar, except that I moved the Windows "My Documents" folder to D: and I also created a symlink to it, from my home directory.