Hello!

I just got a new laptop and I'm currently downloading the latest Ubuntu .iso's (alternate and standard) to install them beside Vista.

One thing I would like is to keep the best possible synchronisation between both systems as I will use them both equally.

1-File sharing
I was thinking about making a partition where /home and \My Documents will reside. While moving My Documents is fairly easy on Windows, I was wondering how to completely move /home to a different partition. Also, what filesystem should I use for this partition? NTFS?

2-Firefox bookmarks/preferences
Is there a way to keep my bookmarks and preferences sync'd between both OS's?

Thanks a lot for your help!

There is a great tool called unison which can be used to synchronize directories.

I didn't know you could spread Windows over seperate partitions. In any case, in Linux you can put /home on any partition you want, you will just need to edit your /etc/fstab file, for example, something like:

could be used to tell the system that /home is on the third partition of a hard drive and is formatted as ext3.

If your idea is to keep two directories synchronized (My Documents and home/you), I don't see why you would want them on the same partition.
You should use a linux filesystem for your /home directory. Linux expects certain permissions and ownership capabilities which NTFS does not have. And if I understood your intention, you are not trying to use the same directory on both OS's, but merely keep them in sync.

In linux these things are stored under the .mozilla directory in your home directory. I've never tried, but I imagine you could just sync this directory with the directory in Windows which stores these settings.

Brian

I use the foxmarks add-in to store bookmarks on the web. If you aren't worried about bookmark security (I'm not), give it a go. Great tool.

Mmm... maybe with the FS-Drivers for Windows?

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If you just want to read/write from one OS to the file system of the other, that's easy, as there is ntfs-3g in Linux to read/write to NTFS, and there are FS-Drivers in Windows which can read/write to, eg., ext3 partitions. Your original question seemed quite different. If you just want a common data partition, that's straight-forward. You should _not_, however, make this common partition your /home directory (or your My Documents directory), but could make it a common sub-directory of these two.

Brian

Really? That's what I wanted to do!

I guess I'll just make an extra NTFS partition where I'll put music and everything and put some shortcuts to it in Ubuntu.