path to firefox profile with dualboot system (winxpand SuseLinux)
All,
Okay, You've seen a subject-title like this more on the web. And so do I... But still my Firefox won't start with the correct profile. My situation: Dual bootsystem with Windows Xp on "C:\", NTFS formatted labeled "WINDOWS". A separate "D:\", Fat32 formatted (called vfat in Linux?) labeled "DATA". My firefox profile is located here (windows path) D:\Data\_mozilla_profiles\Firefox/Profiles/516dyvli.default In Linux accessible via: media:/sda5/_mozilla_profiles/Firefox/Profiles/516dyvli.default I changed the pathname in the profile.ini like this: ---------------------------------------------------- [General] StartWithLastProfile=0 [Profile1] Name=default IsRelative=0 Path=/mnt/media:/sda5/_mozilla_profiles/Firefox/Profiles/516dyvli.default --------------------------------------------------- I formatted the path in various ways, see below, but still Firefox creates a new profile under home/_janneman/.mozilla etc. What is it I'm doing wrong all the time? Anyone an idea? Thanks in advance, _janneman Path=/mnt/DATA/_mozilla_profiles/Firefox/Profiles/516dyvli.default Path=media:/sda5/_mozilla_profiles/Firefox/Profiles/516dyvli.default Path=/sda5/_mozilla_profiles/Firefox/Profiles/516dyvli.default Path=/windows/D/_mozilla_profiles/Firefox/Profiles/516dyvli.default Path=/mnt/media:/sda5/_mozilla_profiles/Firefox/Profiles/516dyvli.default |
Is your windows profile writable? Is it mounted as your user?
Run "df" and "cat /etc/fstab" and post the output of both. |
Files on the same partition are writeable. Here the outcome of what you asked for:
_janneman@linux:~> df Bestandssysteem 1K-blokken Gebruikt Beschikbaar Gebruikt% Aangekoppeld op /dev/sda4 39912248 5311216 34601032 14% / udev 1038476 204 1038272 1% /dev /dev/sda1 51199120 16853856 34345264 33% /windows/C /dev/sda5 27861576 16368840 11492736 59% /windows/D /dev/sdd1 250464 11872 238592 5% /media/usbdisk _janneman@linux:~> cat /etc/fstab /dev/sda4 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/sda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=00 02,nls=utf8 0 0 /dev/sda5 /windows/D vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002, utf8=true 0 0 /dev/sda3 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 _janneman@linux:~> |
ok, one more:
Code:
ls /windows/D/_mozilla_profiles/Firefox/Profiles/516dyvli.default Code:
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ls /windows/D/_mozilla_profiles/Firefox/Profiles/516dyvli.default Code:
_janneman@linux:~> ls /windows/D/_mozilla_profiles/Firefox/Profiles/516dyvli.default |
it shoudl be /media/sda5/....
not /mnt/media:/sda5..... |
I don't use Firefox, but I have tried to share a Mozilla profile in this way. Unfortunately this was not possible since some of the config. files contain file paths, which are not compatible between Windows and Linux. If you get past the problem you're encountering at the moment you'll almost certainly run into these issues next.
What I did was to create a new profile in the default location under Linux, then replace the particular files that I wanted to share with symbolic links to the same file in the Windows profile. |
@dasy2k1
I tried several paths but none works. Even the path you mentioned. @hand of fate I don't know what symbolic links are or how to make them but I try google to find out. |
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If you're using the Konqueror file manager (the default file manager in KDE) you can create a symbolic link by dragging the file into the folder where you want the link then selecting "Link Here" from the popup menu. I think the method is much the same for other file managers. |
Thanks hand od fate, that did the trick!
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