I currently dual-boot Kubuntu and WinXP, using both to a fair degree for different tasks. I'm planning on buying a laptop soon and want, if possible, a seamless way to access personal documents and files from either OS. (So I'll have the option to create whatever partitions are needed, and muck about a bit without risk of data loss).
Currently, I have symlinks in my /home directory to the folders under the c:\Docs-n-settings\username\documents, which is where everything is stored in XP. (Kub automounts the NTFS partition at /windows, so the symlinks are to /windows/Documents....). This works OK, but it'd be nice if what I was seeing under /home was ACTUALLY the same folders as I see in XP; that is, if I had an extra partition which linux always mounts at /home, and under windows, appears as D: and is set up with the Docs-n-settings hierarchy on it.
a) This would require that extra partition to be either NTFS or FAT, so XP can read it. I understand that writing to NTFS is stable enough now (NTFS-3g) for this to work.
b) This would mean that both OSes would be writing to this partition, alternately, depending on which I'm booted in.
So, QUESTIONS: does anyone know if b) will cause it to balls up? I have a sneaky suspicion that I'm missing something! Has anyone experimented with integrating the user directories in XP (or Vista) and *buntu (or *nix more generally?) Is there a better solution that I've not noticed?
Currently, I have symlinks in my /home directory to the folders under the c:\Docs-n-settings\username\documents, which is where everything is stored in XP. (Kub automounts the NTFS partition at /windows, so the symlinks are to /windows/Documents....). This works OK, but it'd be nice if what I was seeing under /home was ACTUALLY the same folders as I see in XP; that is, if I had an extra partition which linux always mounts at /home, and under windows, appears as D: and is set up with the Docs-n-settings hierarchy on it.
a) This would require that extra partition to be either NTFS or FAT, so XP can read it. I understand that writing to NTFS is stable enough now (NTFS-3g) for this to work.
b) This would mean that both OSes would be writing to this partition, alternately, depending on which I'm booted in.
So, QUESTIONS: does anyone know if b) will cause it to balls up? I have a sneaky suspicion that I'm missing something! Has anyone experimented with integrating the user directories in XP (or Vista) and *buntu (or *nix more generally?) Is there a better solution that I've not noticed?
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