[plug] shared /home for dual-booting two distros

[Brian Parish]

Gavin Chester wrote:

>On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 14:02 +0800, Jason Posavec wrote:
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>>The system I use may be of use to you, Gavin. I have a drive that is
>>accessable by both Linux and Windows. When I boot into Windows, it
>>mounts as my "My Documents" folder, when I boot into Linux, it's a
>>symbolic link from my /home directory.
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>That scenario may help son's setup where he wants to dual-boot XP and
>Linux.  I suggested he create a separate /home partition, but never
>imagined that XP could have 'My Documents' on a separate partition that
>he could share alternately with XP.  It would have to formatted vfat, of
>course.  Can you point me to some info on how that is done in XP - or is
>it fairly obvious when you're in front of XP? 
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Yes, just right click on My Documents and select Properties.  Click on 
Move and you can point it at any directory you like.  As you say, it 
would need to be formatted vfat.

cheers
Brian