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<br><br>> Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:20:24 -0500<br>> To: tlug@ss.org<br>> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Sharing Partitions<br>> From: lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org<br>> <br>> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 06:19:22PM +0000, john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg@public.gmane.org wrote:<br>> > I'm about to re-arrange the partitions on my main dual boot PC. I have already shrunk the Vista NTFS partition with gparted (no problems), just need to do redo the linux side of things.<br>> > <br>> > I intend to have two or three distros installed and would like to share as many partitions as possible. /home is a natural one to share and I figure that /opt and /usr/local should also be OK. Those are the main ones I'd like to make common to all. I was also wondering about /var (or at least /var/log). Would that be OK to share amongst the distros? I'm thinking /var may cause problems with package management? Any other possibilities?<br>> > <br>> > Thanks, any advice would be appreciated.<br>> <br>> I wouldn't share any of /var. Too messy. How do you make sense of<br>> anything if the logs are all mixed up?<br>> <br>> You can share swap, you can share /home. /usr/local you can do whatever<br>> you want and probably the same for /opt (although some package managers<br>> on some distributions will install stuff to /opt, so perhaps not).<br>> <br>> Of course I also don't understand wanting more than one distribution<br>> installed. If you want to play with something, use a chroot or a<br>> virtual machine. Why reboot your primary system?<br><br>It's probably time that I learn to set up virtual machines. I don't want to just play with other distros, I want to use them equally, see what I like and dislike. I haven't bothered with virtualization before because the vista on my dual boot PC has no external disk, only the recovery partition. I wouldn't think it's possible to set up vista as a virtual machine that way and I don't want it to be my main OS with linux as the virtual OS. I may have to leave vista as a reboot option. But I suppose another big reason I haven't ventured into virtualization is that I don't know how to do it and it takes no brains to reboot to different OS's. <br> </body>
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