mount a filesystem

[Roland]

Hi,
I have a free partition, on which I will
- create a VFAT filesystem
- call it D:\
- to this filesystem I will move all the "Documents and Settings" directory
- and then mount D on C:\Documents and Settings.

How do I do all that in the Windows XP way, especially the last step: mount
a partition somewhere in the filesystem (I can do all the other steps from
Linux).

Thanks.

 

[Jim]

Hi,
I have a free partition, on which I will
- create a VFAT filesystem

Can Windows XP access this file system? I thought it could only handle FAT
and NTFS.
Jim

 

[Roland]

Can Windows XP access this file system? I thought it could only handle FAT
and NTFS.
Jim

Yes, it /could/ handle them.
OK, VFAT is an extension of the FAT fs to handle "long" filenames (longer
than 8+3).

 

[Alex Nichol]

Yes, it /could/ handle them.
OK, VFAT is an extension of the FAT fs to handle "long" filenames (longer
than 8+3).

Use the regular FAT 32 file system; it uses those extensions. You will
not be able to make a folder bigger than 32 GB in FAT 32 under XP.

Do not try to move the whole Documents and settings; there are items in
that needed at logon, and it must be available in C:. But you can move
Users individual My Documents (which is by far the largest amount) - if
more than one user make a personal folder for each on D;, then when
logged in as each user in turn, open a My Computer window on his one,
another on the C:\Documents and Settings\hisname to show 'My Documents'
and *right* drag it across, taking *Move* here. That will update his
registry references for it to the new location.