> I'm wondering about putting my entire home directory on a FAT partition, and > pointing Windows' "My Documents" folder at the same partition, so that files, > pictures etc. stored under one OS are seamlessly usable under the other. > > Is this just a Very Bad Idea, fraught with terrible danger? I'm aware that I > would not be able to "hibernate" (suspend to disk) Windows, as that doesn't > unmount the FAT partition. When Windows is restarted, it will simply ignore > any > changes made by Linux in the meantime.
In general this is a bad idea, you'll have all kinds of problems with permissions, and probably other things too. Since most of these problems are only for the root of your home directory, the solution that I've used in the past is to just mount your C:/My documents directory somewhere on linux (/windows, /documents etc...) and then put symlinks in your home directory to the relevant parts of it. So if you've got "my documents/music", you can now have /home/user/music as a symlink to it etc.... a bit more maintenance, but not too hard. Andre
