As I sit here and really think about the subject, I think the way to go may be to just use different filesystems and keep to one distro on my laptop. I find myself oddly wondering, If I do create different filesystems for different distros, who's to say I couldn't sym-link 'ln -s' the files from my Fedora home to the Ubuntu one?<br>
<br>Mike Bean<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Christopher Cross <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:g1ccross@gmail.com">g1ccross@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Swap is not always OK because things like suspend to disk may use this<br>
to store your system state. If you want to share swap it should be<br>
fine as long as your suspend to disk is pointed to a file rather then<br>
your swap space.<br>
<br>
/boot should also be fine to share as long as your boot loader is<br>
configured correctly for each distributions kernel and root path and.<br>
<br>
/home may give you issues because of personal settings for different<br>
versions of the same application. As long as your UIDs and GIDs match<br>
up between distributions you should not have to much trouble with<br>
/home/user but any change you make in one distribution to a users<br>
personal settings will carry over and may be incompatible with<br>
whatever version of whatever application is on the next distribution.<br>
If you create unique users for each distribution you may get around<br>
this but some users home directories could be left insecure because<br>
the permissions will match another users UID. It is probably not worth<br>
the headache it can cause.<br>
<br>
Every other directory is going to have distribution specific things in<br>
them. Binaries, libraries, and system settings that may not be<br>
compatible between your chosen distributions will cause nothing but<br>
problems.<br>
<br>
With all that said, I just do not think sharing partitions on a<br>
multi-boot system like this is worth much. If you want to share some<br>
data then create a separate data partition.<br>
<br>
Christopher Cross<br>
<a href="mailto:g1ccross@gmail.com">g1ccross@gmail.com</a><br>
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On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Mike Bean <<a href="mailto:beandaemon@gmail.com">beandaemon@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> So, I have a question for the group. I've been thinking about partitioning,<br>
> and experimenting on a desktop that doesn't have anything I'd consider<br>
> valuable on it. I got to trying this idea of sharing partitions, for<br>
> example, mount a different logical part for /home, /root, etc...etc... At<br>
> first I even tried having both distros use the same boot. (In retrospect,<br>
> not my brightest moment.) But I seriously came to wonder, Why couldn't they<br>
> use the same swap? System wouldn't run them both at the same time, so they<br>
> wouldn't need to share!<br>
><br>
> By product of all this experimentation, is that I've been getting lots of<br>
> different kinds of errors of different forms, things not initializing<br>
> right. Elements of the shell not initializing...etc.... I wanted to ask,<br>
> which partitions can belong to more then one distro? If any? And does it<br>
> need to be a physical or logical part? I realize I could save myself allot<br>
> of hassle if I'd pick one distro and just run it, but I tend to enjoy the<br>
> linux buffet. Sample a little of everything.<br>
><br>
> To put this in perspective, the main schema I'd been using for most of the<br>
> day. #1) physical - 250mb /boot, #2) physical 2048mb swap, #3) logical<br>
> 120GB root, #4) logical 500GB home, #5 logical 120 GB root 2nddistro home<br>
><br>
> Going to try to come to the meeting this month, seeing as how I spend all<br>
> day working with ESX, it doesn't make sense for me to miss a clue meeting on<br>
> virtualization!<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
><br>
> Mike Bean<br>
><br>
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