Just to clear a point up, you say,qtparted would only give a 500mb partition on a FAT drive (not NTFS)?
On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 11:57 +1300, Douglas Royds wrote: > I successfully installed Ubuntu on Friday night. All went pretty smoothly. > > 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. > > Also, I was unable to set up a FAT partition larger than about 500M using > Parted. I want a 3G partition. What to do? > > > > > > ======================================================================= > This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended > addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be > the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or > lost by reason of this transmission. > If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our > apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no > other act on the email. > Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been > altered or corrupted during transmission. > ======================================================================= > > >
