Re: vfat /home partition; 32bit OS on a 64bit Machine

so i will use reiserfs or ext3 in /home and will create another vfat
partition for sharing files between windows and linux. my windows partiotion
is ntfs. i will only use windows for emulators like win wap and some
database client. i will migrate to suse linux 10 and do most of my stuff
there.. thanks a lot dido...

On 11/7/05, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> jhuniepi wrote:
> > Question 1: when installing linux, can create a vfat partition and mount
> > it as /home so that it will contain files shared by windows and linux on
> > a dual boot machine?
>
> VFAT filesystems don't carry any user or group ownership or permissions
> metadata the way a real Unix/Linux-native filesystem would, and that
> makes things quite difficult. You may try your luck with the UMSDOS
> filesystem, which overlays the extra metadata on a (V)FAT filesystem,
> but from what I remember it's painfully slow compared to a real Linux
> native FS, and it has some problems with files created on Windows (been
> a long, long time since I've actually used it though). Frankly, I think
> the performance issues (which are quite grave from what I remember) make
> this not worth doing.
>
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