Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:15:38 -0300 From: Alejandro Pulver <alepulver@FreeBSD.org> To: "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: using sys/fusefs-ntfs as the home dir Message-ID: <20080825171538.0a09bf65@deimos.mars.bsd> In-Reply-To: <bef9a7920808201731m14fa8621r8d8c3329d28565da@mail.gmail.com> References: <bef9a7920808191959w57845c5at8106f57dd97a025@mail.gmail.com> <20080820202717.0b5ae676.freebsd@edvax.de> <bef9a7920808201731m14fa8621r8d8c3329d28565da@mail.gmail.com>
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--Sig_//cImsbdE3+haum8_H_aRae3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:31:41 -0400 "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: > > The solution would be very simple, but because you're insisting > > on having the "D:" partition formatted as NTFS, a problem occurs: > > As far as I know, FreeBSD's NTFS support is okay for reading, but > > not for writing. (I'm not 100% sure because I don't have any > > "Windows" stuff around to check.) >=20 > Actual sysutils/fusefs-ntfs (or ntfsprogs with less stable support) > allows you to read and write.... I am the "unofficial" (I am not sure > if Ale has put my name on the maintainer line of the make file with > his or not) fusefs-ntfs.... the only issue it has on the fb side is in > some cases (happens to me but Ale can't seem to reproduce so we are at > a lost of how to fix it) is any attempt to mount it from anywhere in > /etc/rc or with non-delayed option in fstab will fail (non-fatally and > repeating the attempt after your in "full" multiuser mode works just > fine)... I was asking about how to structure the dir's and from what > you described I don't think it solves the problem completely because > the "Desktop" dir/folder has two completely different means under both > OS's and besides many symlinks (most not documented anywhere) are > likelly needed.... so the purpose of the question was attempting to > automate this and/or minimize the number of symlinks (because to > windows the will not translate to shortcuts if I understand the guts The sharing of the home directory can only be done per-application and only for some of them. You can't just use the same home directory. For the applications that work that way, you could symlink their configuration/data directories (there are tutorials describing it for Firefox/Thunderbird/Opera). Ale --Sig_//cImsbdE3+haum8_H_aRae3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkizEuoACgkQiV05EpRcP2FbqgCeNuKOXdwSVOVRqCwGRcNhl45F 8cEAnA7x1OHbyXmL8V9pRf3urL5qvLA0 =81Pk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_//cImsbdE3+haum8_H_aRae3--
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