It is possible, starting with Windows 2000, to mount partitions in
directories (mountvol will do the trick in command line, there's also a
graphical means to do this via the disk management console). The problem
is that the mount occurs late in the boot process, and this can cause
problems at times. That said, I have set up several systems with the
"Documents and Settings" directory mounted from a separate partition. My
point with Windows was that doing this doesn't help much for protecting
the user settings on an upgrade or reinstall, since the registry hive
cannot be retained, and many settings aren't in the user directories anyway.


Kurt Granroth wrote:

> On Apr 21, 2005, at 11:11 AM, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
>
>>> I'm not saying that you cannot improve some aspects of system
>>> management
>>> in Windows by using a separate partition for the user profiles, only
>>> that it doesn't work nearly as well as the same tactic does in Linux. I
>>> have been working in the Windows world for 17 years (since version
>>> 1.0!), and I've only rarely used multiple partitions, primarily
>>> because,
>>> even with 2000, XP, or 2003, the system still has so many
>>> assumptions of
>>> a C: drive, that it's just easier to manage with a single large
>>> partition (the settings directory works just as well for backup
>>> management on C: as it would on D:, and there's not much other benefit
>>> from partitioning a single drive)
>>
>>
>> You make some very good points. About all a D drive can do is save
>> data, not
>> all the user preferences, etc that a /home partition can save.
>
>
> Are you sure? I'll say up front that I have somewhat limited
> experience with the sys admin side of Windows but while fooling around
> with XP Pro the other day, I discovered the 'mountvol' command. From
> the description, it seems that you could mount the second drive's
> partition on any directory ("folder") on the C: drive. This sounds a
> lot like the Linux 'mount' to me. If true, then I don't see any reason
> why the second partition couldn't be mounted as
> C:\Documents and Settings.
>
> This is starting to stray a bit off topic for PLUG, but I'd be curious
> to know if that's the case. Are there any Windows gurus here willing
> to shed some light on mountvol?
>
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