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Originally posted by Big Harry
not the answer i was hoping for. it just seems inefficient to have an extra partition. thanks very much for the advice though.
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I'm not sure where you are seeing an extra partition. On some systems having extra partitions can actually increase performance as it can let you place the data you access the most on the fasted parts of your drive.
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Originally posted by eeried
Thanks for this great idea, david_ross!
I used motub's detailed article to mount a shared partition with win98, but what she suggests is to do it inside your home dir.
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It's just that in my setup I want to use that partition and have it mounted for several users so having it mounted directly in my home directory isn't as useful - it is easier just to symlink it to my home directory.
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Originally posted by eeried
You mean you've created an extra partition, don't you?
Aren't there any security problems just as if it was mounted on /home/user1?
Or do you mean it's different because the partition is on its own, sort of quarantined!
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The vfat partition is seperate, yes.
It is very difficult to guage what you would anticipate in the way of security problems. All filesystems that are not encrypted can be accessed by anyone with physical access to a computer in one way or another. The main security issue is that each fat partition can only be mounted with a set of permissions that exist on all files. So if two people use the same partition to store files then they also have access to each others documents.
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Originally posted by eeried
I suppose having someting like windoz on your computer is always a bit of a threat anyway, isn't it?
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Having Windows on your PC isn't that much of a security risk, running it on the other hand would leave you fat fartition open to any viri that your computer is not protected against.