On 8/27/06, Brian de Alwis <bsd@cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
> 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.

That sounds good, thanks for the idea. Now if that laptop I have been
waiting for for ages materializes...

>
> (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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>   Brian de Alwis | Software Practices Lab | UBC | http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~bsd/
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