I have three partitions on my netbook:
- ntfs with windows 7
- ext 4 with Ubuntu 11 and
- fat32 for my private data
On the fat32-Partition Ubuntu und Windows 7 should share my private data.
How could I move my home directory with the exiting files to the fat32-partition? And how do I mount this partition permanently as my home-directory?
Many thanks for an helpful answer.
Best Answer
As per my point of view please understand the merit and demerit of moving home folder to other file system
It's not a good idea to have the whole of
/home
in afat32 or NTFS
partition because those two Windows filesystems don't support Linux permissions. Also, the /home folder has many hidden files and folders (these have a leading.
i.e for hidden files) for configuration and I don't know what effect this would have in Vista, or whether Vista would interfere with these..But what I do is to have a separate NTFS partition for data and set up symlinks from my
/home
in Linux and whatever the equivalent is in Windows (links? shortcuts? ). So - say I have a 'Music' folder in my NTFS data partition, then I create a symlink called 'Music' in my Linux home and a link called - yes, you've guessed it - 'Music' in Windows My Documents. (I'm using XP.) In fact I also multiboot several Linux distros, so I do the same in each. Whichever distro/OS I'm in I can access the same files from my home folder by double-clicking on the symlinks (which look like folders with bendy arrows in Linux)If I am wrong correct me