Maybe if you use for both an extra HDD instead the one where the OS's are installed. For that you may could set the system's to use that HDD as Drive A or B (if you didn't use any floppy drive). It would require to edit for both OS the settings and change the permissions etc. Not an easy job, special on Linux!
Code: sudo usermod -d /path/to/new/home -m username This should copy all files from your home directory to "/path/to/new/home" This should also update the system file that stores the location of your home directory in (/etc/passwd). The path should be to the same folder on your Windows 7 setup.
yes possible but certainly not adviseable here is why? you need to keep data in-consistence between 2 file systems. windows being ntfs or fat or refs and linux can be anything else except those 3. may be fat32, but fat32 with root? i have never seen it. so your options? mount the windows partition using ntfs-3g and edit the fstab so it automounts the windows ntfs partition. can you post your /etc/fstab partition? and lets assume its mounted in /media or /mnt and the directory is /media/windows-disk/Users/<username>/desired-directory then you need to create symlink in the /home/<username>/windows-home eg $ ln -sv /media/windows-disk/Users/<username>/desired-directory /home/<username>/windows-home thats option one, option 2, you can rsync the windows user home directory to the /home/<username>/windows-home $ rsync -avc --progress /media/windows-disk/Users/<username>/desired-directory /home/<username>/windows-home i dont know how your /etc/fstab looks like, but if you can paste your etc fstab here? then i can adjust the command accordingly, till then i am not editing the commands as code since its just a rough guess. REMEMBER TO ADJUST THE PERMISSIONS ACCORDINGLY. since M$ file permissions is not the same as *nix/Linux file permissions and can give you a headache later. thanks! -paul