Sharing Partitions

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 06:19:22PM +0000, john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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?
> 
> Thanks, any advice would be appreciated.

I wouldn't share any of /var.  Too messy.  How do you make sense of
anything if the logs are all mixed up?

You can share swap, you can share /home.  /usr/local you can do whatever
you want and probably the same for /opt (although some package managers
on some distributions will install stuff to /opt, so perhaps not).

Of course I also don't understand wanting more than one distribution
installed.  If you want to play with something, use a chroot or a
virtual machine.  Why reboot your primary system?

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Len Sorensen
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