| OscarWine | Considering a dual boo Windows 10/Lubuntu, If I want the Home folders (Documents, Downloads, Music, Videos) to be the same as those same user folders in the Windows repartition, can I do that by just using a symlink? So if the user makes a Download in Linux, he could also see that same download in the Windows' Download folder? | 12:33 |
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| OscarWine | Note: Windows partition is already mounted when booting, as I added it to the /etc/fstab file. | 12:35 |
| eyeoh | um.. | 12:56 |
| eyeoh | I'm not sure if symlink is being used correctly here | 12:56 |
| eyeoh | but I suppose you could? | 12:56 |
| eyeoh | in linux, the directories under ~ aren't anything special | 12:57 |
| eyeoh | so I guess you could symlink that ntfs partition's directories from linux ~ | 12:57 |
| eyeoh | ok, in that case, symlinks could make sense | 12:57 |
| eyeoh | my preference would be to keep it separate and symlink to the entire windows partition instead | 12:58 |
| eyeoh | it doesn't feel right to boot into linux, but then have no files of its own there and still depend on windows | 12:59 |
| eyeoh | dual booting is a bit of an odd concept really - you can't truly divide attention between both OSs fairly | 12:59 |
| eyeoh | I do have win11 available to dual boot on my thinkpad, but hardly use it or access its partitions | 13:00 |
| OscarWine | I found this: https://superuser.com/questions/1741710/shared-partition-to-be-symlinked-by-both-dual-boot-oss | 13:08 |
| OscarWine | It recommends using FAT32, which I won't... But the other 2 steps are already implemented (Disabled Windows Fast Startup and having the NTFS partitions permanently mounted via fstab). | 13:10 |
| OscarWine | By the way, maybe I forgot to mention that I have a c:\ partition just for Windows updates and programs while keep the personal files (Documents, Downloads, Videos, etc) in a different partition, d:\ | 13:11 |
| OscarWine | The idea is to give each OS enough space for it's updates and softwares while keeping personal files in a separate partition, accessible by both OS. | 13:12 |
| OscarWine | So if one OS breaks badly, I just need to reinstall the OS again, while the personal files will be left in a separate partition | 13:12 |
| eyeoh | exfat might be an ok filesystem for both OSs | 13:15 |
| eyeoh | btrfs and winbtrfs - *maybe*; but I don't know how good it is on the windows side | 13:15 |
| OscarWine | I was considering exfat as well | 13:18 |
| OscarWine | Someone said in the #ubuntu channel: there's also the issue of software patents which affects exfat | 13:18 |
| OscarWine | I guess I won't overthink about this... I will just create the symlink between the folders and see what happen | 13:19 |
| eyeoh | trying it and seeing is the best way to find out; especially for your own unique setups/requirements | 13:25 |
| eyeoh | for myself, I've always found it difficult to divide time between windows and linux and only really properly "got into linux" when I didn't touch the windows stuff | 13:25 |
| eyeoh | trying to cater to both at the same time is a fair bit of extra effort | 13:26 |
| eyeoh | also, if the real issue is that you're short of storage space, perhaps consider getting more | 13:26 |
| eyeoh | either way, have plenty of backup drive space available | 13:26 |
| eyeoh | you can do whatever you want when there's a good backup to restore to | 13:27 |
| OscarWine | It's just an old PC that I'm doing what I can to give it a new life. And it's not I who will be it's user. | 13:38 |
| OscarWine | I will leave Windows installed just for the case where the user needs to install some Windows only software in the future. So I will advise him to use Linux for web browsing, watching movies listen to music and other light and simple activities. | 13:39 |
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