Question for Lazyweb

[memnus]

Background: See previous post.

Question: Given that the new drive (single full-size partition, FAT32) already has data on it that I'd prefer not to copy over again, is there a way (in a fresh Fedora Core 5 install) to simply mount that drive as /home (bonus points for mounting as /home/byoung)? Or am I better off just symlinking to /hdb?

Bonus question: If some of the files I'd like accessibly from both boots (read: mp3s) currently have spaces in the file names, will Fedora care much?

I'm also plotting ways to have the two Firefox installs share a profile. That'd be badass.

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[inferno0069.livejournal.com]

From what I've read, sharing firefox profiles is a bad idea. Sometimes OS-specific binary things get stored there (e.g. plugins) and it won't be happy. Various ways to deal with this have been designed and might be able to be found via Google, but I don't remember anything more specific.

As vrable mentioned, putting the FAT32 drive as /home or /home/byoung will probably cause a number of complaints. It's probably best to have it mounted at /hdb and symlink to it from wherever you want it. I tend to have a few directories at the root of a volume and symlink to those: backups, music, tmp, whatever.

Spaces should be fine for Fedora, sometimes other characters can confuse things: accents from french / spanish or punctuation that's allowed on one OS and not the other.