[CLUE-Tech] Mounting FAT32 partition as /home

[Michael Robbert]

Angelo,
I had a similar experience on my RedHat machine. It is dual boot so I 
wanted to share a home directory, but couldn't get Linux to play with a 
vfat /home. It has been awhile so I don't remember the exact cause and I 
may never have found the cause. I will tell you that one other thing 
that you could try would be to mount the partition with your uid instead 
of root's. Use the uid= option in your fstab.
Can you login from a text terminal and start X from there as a user? 
Look at the X logs and the [G,K,X]DM logs anything in there?

Angelo Bertolli wrote:

> 
> Well I decided to install Debian.  In the process, I had this Great 
> Idea: I would mount a fat32 partition under /home to allow it accessible 
> by Windows.
> 
> It didn't work.  I thought for sure if I just made it umask=000 in 
> fstab, it would work fine, but for some reason X won't allow me to log 
> in.  Does anyone have any idea why it won't let me?  Is it because 
> everything on that partition is owned by root?
> 
> The root user, which has its home directory under /root instead of /home 
> is able to log in to X fine.  Are there any special reasons why the 
> fat32 partition would have conflicts?  my fstab is basically vfat and 
> defaults,umask=000
> 
> Angelo
> 
> 

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