I just moved my home directory onto my vfat partition.
There are a number of problems.
First, if I try and start a vncserver, I get:
xauth: error in locking authority file /home/siepmann/.Xauthority
Similarly, if I try and move an email to a different folder (postfix/dovecot), I get a server error, and the following appears in /var/log/maillog:
Jan 12 16:49:01 domain imap(siepmann): link(/home/siepmann/Maildir//tmp/1137084541.P5373Q10M561225.domain.com, /home/siepmann/Maildir//new/1137084541.P5373Q10M561225.domain.com:2,S) failed: Operation not permitted
These things didn't happen before which leads me to believe that the problem is something to do with how Linux mounts my vfat partition...
The line in /etc/fstab is:
/dev/hda1 /home/siepmann vfat defaults,uid=500,gid=500
Any ideas?
Many thanks!
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Peter Siepmann
Nottingham, UK
http://www.petersiepmann.net