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Mount FAT32 filesystem as /home during installation?

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Setup in Ubuntu 11.10 installation gives me this message while in advanced partitioning:

"The file system type fat32 cannot be mounted on /home, because it is not a fully-functional Unix file system. Please choose a different file system, such as ext2."

Is there a way to force the use of the fat32 partition so I can share it with Windows, but also using it as home?

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answered 3 Years ago damomnning · Accepted Answer

A slight improvement over the "shared ntfs data partition" recipe suggested by @bodhi.zazen is to set up /home on an ext partition, mount an NTFS partition at, say, /mount/disk and then replace directories the user's home folder with symlinks to directories on the NTFS partition.

/home/username/Documents -> /mnt/disk/my_linux_data/Documents

/home/username/Music -> /mnt/disk/my_linux_data/Music

etc. Then, if you make a point not to save files in your home folder directly, the process will be totally transparent.