Eero Ahonen wrote:
> Since 2k Windows has supported mounting partitions to directories. It
> doesn't come up on the normal installation, but wouldn't it be possible
> to just mount another partition to C:\Documents and settings or
> C:\Users? 

It should, yes.

What I did is just copy the entire \users\public to my other drive, then 
told Vista that public's home directory was m:\public

I've had zero problems with that.

 > Of course using both styles makes it more complicated to
> think, but I don't see why it wouldn't work just like mounting another
> partition to /home in Linux.

The only problems I can see are
1) making the change. I.e., you'd have to actually manage to delete \users 
before you could mount another partition as \users. However, Vista now has 
symlink-style reparse points, so you could probably use them.

2) if something tries to access \users in the boot process before it 
finishes mounting all the drives, you could have a problem.

> Running defragger on Windows 3.1 sounds somewhat frightening.

IIRC, defraggers for the 16-bit OSes all ran under DOS, not Windows. But 
some of them used the usage stats from Win95 to put common programs near the 
front of the drive, and the ones for Win3 would put files in the same 
directory next to each other if you told it to.

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