[CLUE-Tech] Mounting FAT32 partition as /home

[Angelo Bertolli]

Sounds a little bit messy, but it also sounds like I can put this on top 
of my vfat partition without actually having to create a new partition or 
reformat anything.  It might be worth a shot.

Angelo

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Jim Ockers wrote:

> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 16:48:18 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Jim Ockers <ockers at ockers.net>
> Reply-To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
> To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
> Subject: Re: [CLUE-Tech] Mounting FAT32 partition as /home
> 
> Hi Angelo,
>
> Angelo Bertolli wrote:
>>
>>> How about using UMSDOS filesystem maybe?
>>
>> I'm not familiar with UMSDOS, can you explain it a little bit?  Can
>> Windows read it?
>
> http://linux.voyager.hr/umsdos/
>
> It is "kind of" like the long filenames on FAT that Windows 9x uses,
> except with a much richer feature set and a map file in each directory.
> Maybe you could think of it like the TRANS.TBL files for ISO9660
> filesystems, where the short filename is mapped to a long filename
> and maybe some file metadata.
>
> You can overlay an entire unix filesystem on a FAT filesystem using
> UMSDOS I think.  Hardlinks, symlinks, pipes, permissions, ownership,
> etc. are all supported.
>
> If the map file gets out of sync with the actual contents of the
> directory (like, say, you were using Windows and it deleted a file)
> you could have problems.  The fsck/sync program tries to fix problems
> like that.
>
> Obviously you need the UMSDOS filesystem tools to be able to create
> and use it; also you have to have the filesystem kernel module on
> hand (or it's compiled in the kernel).  cat /proc/filesystems to check;
> you could try 'modprobe umsdos' if it's compiled as a module.
>
> You might want to try the UVFAT patches so that the long filenames
> are the same between Windows & Linux.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Jim
>
> PS I did try UMSDOS once a very long time ago.  It made my DOS
> filesystem seem messy because of all the extra files it created to
> contain the map information.
>
> --
> Jim Ockers, P.Eng. (ockers at ockers.net)
> Contact info: please see http://www.ockers.net/
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