On 7/25/07, Michael Derek Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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if you just want to swap data back and forth between the partitions, you
might be best off using chown or chmod on specific directories rather
than making the whole thing completely accessible. for instance, you
could just chown patrickh /media/datatank/home/patrickh (assuming you're
using the same logins, etc. etc.) which would allow your patrickh user
on suse to access fully the home directories on the other partitions,
but would require you to login as root to go in and change the important
config files on those other partitions.
Derek
Usually I do not recommend writing to the other OSes system partitions
at all. Changing the privileges may result in the other OS to not
function properly.
For me, the safest way is - make the necessary folders/files readable
using their own OS. Then you can read them from the other OSes on the
machine. If you need to modify them, store them locally in the OS you
use at the moment, and them fatch them back when you boot in the other
OS. Yes, that way you will have 2 duplicate copies, but they can be
cleaned after the transfer, and is much much safer.
I started using this approach in the old days, when I dual/triple
booted with win. Back then, the NTFS write support in linux was not
very reliable. And there was ext2 importer for win. And I was safe not
damaging any of the filesystems, while working with them from the
other OS.
Even if in Patrick's situation, he does not have this limitation (all
etc2 partitions), creating such a habit can avoid possible future
disasters.
Or, create a separate partition for the shared files, so you separate
them from the OSes (as we used to do with a FAT32 partition to share
between win/linux).
Yeah, a long writing, but I guess the moral of the story is - Patric,
please reconsider your desire to write to these partitions - most
probably you can go without it, even if it is possible, as Derek
suggested.
Cheers
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Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
Even the most advanced equipment in the hands of the ignorant is just
a pile of scrap.
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