Re: Home and partition

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R.F. Pels wrote:
> dario wrote:
>
>> Can I set the home folder on the FAT32 partition? If yes, so how to do it?
>
> Yes you can and no you should not. FAT32 partitions do not meet the
> necessary requirements for case-sensitivity and security to act as a proper
> home partition.

FWIW, it /is/ possible to have a directory on a FATxx filesystem that
supports all the standard Unix filesystem requirements (case
sensitivity, permission bits, etc.).

However, the technique that makes this possible also causes the contents
of the directory to be unaccessable from any MSWindows environment that
also uses the FATxx filesystem.

What you do is make a rather large, empty file on your FATxx filesystem
using the Linux dd(1) command. Make the file large enough to satisfy all
your space requirements for all files that you intend to be in the
target directory.

Now, use the mkfs(8) command to format the contents of the file as a
Linux/Unix filesystem. ext2 would be fine.

Finally, mount(8) this file /as a filesystem/ using the -o loop -t ext2
options
(i.e. mount -t ext2 -o loop /mnt/Windows/C:/my-FAT32-file /home/me )
This gives you an ext2 filesystem /in/ a FAT32 file. The contents of the
FAT32 file will be a full filesystem tree (directory and files) that
support the Linux filesystem model of permission bits and case sensitive
names.

HTH
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Lew Pitcher, IT Specialist, Enterprise Data Systems
Enterprise Technology Solutions, TD Bank Financial Group

(Opinions expressed here are my own, not my employer's)
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