From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 20 18:27:21 2008 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 123E1106566B for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:27:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 861D08FC1E for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:27:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-195-98-37.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.98.37]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF6BA51173; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:27:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id m7KIRHjZ001882; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:27:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:27:17 +0200 From: Polytropon To: "Aryeh Friedman" Message-Id: <20080820202717.0b5ae676.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List , Alejandro Pulver Subject: Re: using sys/fusefs-ntfs as the home dir X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:27:21 -0000 On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:59:31 -0400, "Aryeh Friedman" wrote: > 500 GB internal drive in 2 partions (min. for vista [c:] and the rest > for fbsd [8-current]) > 250 GB external (usb) that will be ntfs formated [d: for windows and > /mnt/d on fbsd) > > My question how do I set it up so my windows user's dir is the same as > my home dir on fbsd? (assume it will be on the ext. drive)? 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.) The solution would be to automount the external USB harddisk via /etc/fstab into /home, or into your individual home directory. With a FAT / MS-DOS formatted disk, this would look like this: /dev/da0s1 /home/aryeh msdosfs rw 0 0 Note that /dev/da0 has to be this designated USB disk or startup or login would be able to fail. Of course, it would be much easier if "Windows" could access an simple stupid UFS file system. :-) Other problems could occur if you're using a FreeBSD and a "Windows" version of the same program that behave differently, for example a browser which's "Windows" version destroys the configuration files - your settings of the FreeBSD version would be gone. > Secondary question which I know is answered at WineHQ so no need to > answer unless there is a BSD specific issue is how do I make it so > wine will treat the first partion of the 500 GB as ~/.wine/drive_c and > the same for the external Just a guess: First mount them, then put the mountpoint paths into wine's configuration file. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...