Re: lock files

[Damion Yates <nospam [at] rd.bbc.co.uk>]

On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Al Hudson wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, ross wrote:

> > > How did you move your home directory? Where to?
> >
> > from /home to a vfat partition
>
> Hmm. You shouldn't really have a home directory on a vfat partition,
> because you lose your file attributes - that might have something to do
> with it,

That is exactly it. The lock file is a special file, a symbolic link to non
existant hostname:PID of your computer and netscape respectively.

vfat cannot hold those attributes. uvfat as I explained only a few days ago.
can. As can umsdos (in the kernel) only umsdos looses matching longfile
support (it uses it's own format for them).

> I presume the reason you moved it to a vfat partition was so you could
> access it from windows?

You might like to look at options for windows accessing your ext2 partition,
there are certainly read only device drivers for windows for it. I would
have /home/username as ext2 as you're often gonna need symb links (netscape
and kvirc need them for starters) and other special files. Then have a
shared area perhaps /home/username/dos which is itself just a link to
/mnt/dos/Home/Username/ or however your dos mounting is laid out. For the
most part you can force apps to write to ~/dos/ or ${HOME}/dos as it is also
called and then if you reboot to windows you can access those same files (the
point in this excersize I guess).

Damion

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