Formating home partition as fat?

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Yes, you can do this. Simply identify the partition mount point as /home, 
and then do not format it. 

Note: There will be some incompatibilities--mostly of the cr/lf variety 
easily handled on the linux side with unix2dos and dos2unix scripts that 
translate the line termination chars to fit the OS.


On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 fleytin@sci.smolensk.ru wrote:

> 
> Hello, listers!
> I am new for this list and i am a complete newby to linux. But i plan 
> to install it and try it, so i have several questions and let's start 
> just with one:
> Since i have quite limited disk space, i found it a very interesting 
> idea to format home partition as fat so that both Linux and Windows 
> could share data on it. I have 10 gb hard disk, but my bios gives me 
> access only to 4 gb. I saved 1 gb for planned Linux installation and 
> have remaining 3 gb for my Win-98 system. I actually have 2 fat 
> partitions: Primary partition (disk c:) 1 gb in size and extended 
> partition (disk d:) 2 gb. So i wonder if i can tell Linux to accept 
> my extended fat partition as its home partition without reformating 
> it? Any suggestions will be highly appreciated.
> Thanks in advance,
> Sergey.
> 
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 15:56:24 -0500 (EST) Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> > Another approach you might want to consider, is to size down your Windows 
> > partition to something closer to it's actual data size, i.e. if you have 
> > 1.5 gB of Windows programs, make hda3 2 gB. Take the remaining for a /home 
> > formatted as vfat. That way you could see the same data files whether 
> > you're in linux or Windows. And, you'd have enough room for X, not that X 
> > is accessible yet, but some access for GNOME is on the horizon.
> > 
> >  On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 
> > PRASADSL@iocl.co.in wrote:
> > 
> > > thanks every body you who showed concern but i am sorry that i could not do
> > > the things 
> > > 
> > > basically what i did was as root igave
> > > mkdir -p /dos
> > > mount -t vfat /dev/hda1/dos
> > > 
> > > the command showed no errors ( as it happens almost always in linux :)
> > > but when i went inside the dir there was none in it ...neigther was some
> > > thing in the /mnt dir 
> > > i also tried editing /etc/fstab  but of no use 
> > > 
> > > basically here is my hard disk ...if you want some more info plz call me
> > > .....i have a lot of things to ask if this problem is solved ....you know i
> > > am a damn newbie and passionate for linux 
> > > 
> > > result of fdisk
> > > 
> > > device     boot  start end      blocks    ID   system
> > > /dev/hda1        1972   2513     409752   83    linux     
> > > /dev/hda2        1294   1971     5125680   f    win95 Ext'd(LBA)
> > > /dev/hda3   *      1    1022     7726288+  b    win95 FAT32
> > > /dev/hda4        1023   1293     2948760  82     LInux Swap
> > > /dev/hda5        1294   1971    5125648+  b     win95 FAT32    
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >  my mtab file :
> > > 
> > >  /dev/hda1 / ext2 rw 0 0
> > > none /proc proc rw 0 0
> > > usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
> > > none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> > > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
> > > 
> > > 
> > > my fstab file :
> > > 
> > > LABEL=/                 /                       ext2    defaults        1 1
> > > /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
> > > /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner    0 0
> > > none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> > > none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> > > /dev/hda4               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> > > /dev/hda3               /dos                    vfat    defaults        1 0
> > > 
> > > the last line i tried putting after making a dir in / as dos 
> > > 
> > > and regarding the disclaimer , i am helpless as it is attached automatically
> > > when this piece of paper leaves our network....i do not fine our admin good
> > > enough to talk :)
> > > 
> > > thanx in advance
> > > 
> > > see i am totally new to this world ,  you guys  have to teach me word by
> > > word
> > > 
> > > 
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