On 2006.08.27 12:43:51 +0100, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> (The one problem I haven't decided upon yet is
> what to do with the XP laptop - which runs NetBSD-current 90% of the
> time - in terms of sharing /synchronization with the XP setup and the
> rest; I guess I could increase the currently shared 600MB Fat32
> partition and use it as home (sub) folder in both, but it gets messy.

I have a similar setup on my laptop.  My solution is to have a
FAT32 partition for shared files, and I use unison to occasionally
synchronize my `real' files (maintained on a NetBSD partition) and
that shared parition.  Unison can synchronize local file systems
as well as across networks.

(I did try using the shared partition exclusively, but quickly
abandoned it as a solution due to major frustrations from differences
in upper/lowercase in file names.  Unison properly handles those
issues during the synchronization.)

Brian.

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