Sharing Partitions

[Salman Ahmed]

You should be able to share /tmp and the swap partitions without any issues.

The /home partition should be OK if both distros assign your users the same uids and gids. The only thing to watch out for is if the version of KDE/Gnome/XFCE/etc is different across the distros, then their metadata directories (like .gnome, .gconf, etc.) may contain data that is not applicable to the distros being shared.

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Salman Ahmed




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From: "john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org" <john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org>
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Sent: Sat, January 30, 2010 1:19:22 PM
Subject: [TLUG]: Sharing Partitions

 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.

John.



      
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