I am using a 250gig external to run Ubuntu 8.04, I set aside 10 gigs for my Ubuntu ext3 partition, 1 gig for the swap and the rest is ntfs for transferring between windows and Ubuntu. I use portable applications from here and I use a lot of the same application in windows and on Linux. I didn't want to use wine to run my applications since I have more stable version designed for Ubuntu. So i was wondering if the application roots (where they store their settings and data) could be changed to the same one? So if I would boot into windows and use my portable apps they could pull the settings from the Ubuntu partition and when I boot into Ubuntu the settings will be the same. So I don't have to manage both at once, just set one and the data is saved in the same directory and all apps have the same settings under Ubuntu and windows. Or is their a way to just automatically sync the settings and data? HereI also posted to see if anyone could help. It would be nice if this could be done. So I would not only have a portable operating system but also portable apps for when I have to use windows!
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I suppose you could use something like Migo... See, that's the beauty of portable apps. They all put their settings where you know them. The best way would probably install wine and use the NTFS partition (for Portapps) from the Ubuntu partition.
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I thought you could only mount an NTFS partition read-only under Linux...
I can access my drive (ntfs partition) and save data there and move things around. I have some apps (like ktorrent and frostwire) save their data their but their settings and program files are saved elsewhere.. I wasn't asked where to install under ubuntu like in windows..
I don't need migo, I already have a portable desktop.. What I am looking for is that my portable apps that I have also on Ubuntu can sync their settings or just save them in the same directory.
It's simple with programs that lets you choose from different profiles, like Thunderbird and Firefox. Here's a tutorial from the ubuntuforums. Give that a try. And here's what you can do with the other apps. Let's say that you have the portable version and linux version of AppX. The configuration files of the portable version are in your Windows partition at C:\PortableAppX\Data\settings (which in ubuntu is /media/windows/PortableAppX/Data/settings; remember linux is case sensitive), while on your ubuntu partition, they are located in "/home/user/.appx". Then what you can do is edit your fstab to automatically mount "/media/...../settings" to "/home/user/.appx". You should be able to find many tutorials on how to automatically mount a folder to another location in ubuntu, but here's something to get you started. I hope you understand all the gibberish I'm writing here.
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