From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 11 21:13:25 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83A1816A420 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:13:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CADB13C44B for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:13:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lBBLDMml023575; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:13:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 86717B829; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:13:22 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:13:22 +0100 From: Roland Smith To: Aryeh Friedman Message-ID: <20071211211322.GB76488@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Aryeh Friedman , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+g7M9IMkV8truYOl" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: looking for ideas: creating a data partition for a dual boot system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:13:25 -0000 --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 03:43:14PM -0500, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > I have both vista and freebsd 8-current installed on the same drive > and also have allocated the rest of the disk to be a fat32 partition. > I know I should put any data I want to be passed between the two on > the fat32 partition. Now the question is how to lay it out so that: >=20 > 1. The home dir for my account of FreeBSD =3D Vista account's root dir In FreeBSD you can mount the fat32 partition on /home/$USER. How to handle this in vista you'd have to ask somewhere else, I think. The FAT "filesystem" doesn't handle a lot of things (like file and directory permissions) that UFS2 does. So this doesn't strike me as a really good idea. > 2. Share the same Desktop folder (I think if #1 is solved this is automat= ic) Maybe, but the Desktop folder would be pretty much useless for FreeBSD. Maybe there is an X window manager that could do something usefull with it, but I doubt it. And the icons and stuff would point to windows programs/drives anyway. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHXv1yEnfvsMMhpyURAl7wAKCLLJnnR+Yv2M9Im5ZW2Jh8CbBKOwCfb0db VWm708MSBtGS4MO+rwIK7vE= =YKGk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl--