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helander:
In one of my applications using TC I have it installed on a USB stick that is FAT32 formatted. One of the reasons is that one of the use cases is to have the stick being used on Windows for adding/deleting application specific files.

Since a FAT32 filesystem is not fully Linux "compliant", e.g. file ownership really does not work and the x flag on the files is not possible to modify (seems always to be set), I would like to be able to have home on a loop back file (with a proper Linux filesystem). I realize I could create a separate partition on the stick and format it to ext2/3 but I would like to avoid that for various reasons.

Are there any specific reasons for not supporting home on a loop back file, like local is supported on a loop back file?
Or have i just missed something and that there actually exists an option that would allow me to do that?

/Lars

curaga:
Why not use the backup option? It's a single file, and keeps permissions. I'd think that it would be partly redundant to also support a loop home.

Jason W:
Encrypted home is a loopback file which should work on a FAT partition like the tclocal file.

helander:

--- Quote from: curaga on June 15, 2009, 04:49:14 PM ---Why not use the backup option? It's a single file, and keeps permissions. I'd think that it would be partly redundant to also support a loop home.

--- End quote ---

Backup reqiures an explicit save and it saves all of its contents each time (I think) and for these two reasons I have already discarded that as an option.

/Lars

helander:

--- Quote from: Jason W on June 15, 2009, 04:55:21 PM ---Encrypted home is a loopback file which should work on a FAT partition like the tclocal file.

--- End quote ---

Is there a way around the need to have to enter a password at each boot?

/Lars

PS. If not I could probably experiment with the code in tc-config to get what I want :). DS.

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