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Tuesday, September 23rd 2008, 2:31am

KDE symlinks and VFAT

Greetings--

I've just installed Fedora 9 on my laptop using KDE as the desktop manager. I want to keep my user home directories on a VFAT partition, but apparently that creates a problem. KDE wants to build symlinks in the ~/.kde directory, which aren't possible on VFAT. Is there any way to tell KDE to not use symlinks?

Thanks for any ideas!

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Wednesday, September 24th 2008, 11:46am

RE: KDE symlinks and VFAT

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Greetings--

I've just installed Fedora 9 on my laptop using KDE as the desktop manager. I want to keep my user home directories on a VFAT partition, but apparently that creates a problem. KDE wants to build symlinks in the ~/.kde directory, which aren't possible on VFAT. Is there any way to tell KDE to not use symlinks?
I don't think this is going to be possible. And to be honest, I think you're going to hit all kinds of problems using VFAT for your home directory, as a lot of other applications are likely to want to use symlinks as well. For example, under my home directory I can find symlinks from Wine, Google Earth, Firefox and OpenOffice.org, etc.

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