Re: Multiple Installs = Multiple Swap Partitions?

John Hasler <john@xxxxxxxxxx> schrieb:
> PeteCresswell writes:
>> So, if I wanted to try to be cute about it, I could carve out a FAT32
>> partition, give it a drive letter for Windows' sake, and point
>> everybody to it - thereby establishing a common place to store all my
>> documents. (?)

> That would be a good way of sharing documents between Microsoft
> Windows and Linux, but it would not be a good idea to use it for
> anything but that under Linux. Don't make it your Linux /home. FAT
> does not have any notion of file permissions or ownership. I don't
> think it supports symlinks, either.

There are certainly MS Windows programs that can access ext3 partitions,
so you could use the same /home partition for every Linux installation
and also access it from MS Windows.

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Jim Strathmeyer
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