24 Sep
2006
24 Sep
'06
9:26 a.m.
On Saturday 23 September 2006 2:06 pm, iainduncan(a)telus.net wrote:
Can anyone tell if sharing the home partition and swap
partition is
a good plan? I'm thinking seperate boots, seperate /s, and shared
swap and home.
Hello Iain,
I've been sharing the swap partition between 2 or more Linux distros
for over 2 years now without problems.
But I've never tried sharing the home partition.
I would think that if you installed xyz application from 1 distro,
then installed xyz application with perhaps a different version
number in the 2nd distro, the .xyz directory in /home might get
altered from the 2nd install and cause problems when you returned to
the 1st distro and ran xyz application.
If you have the courage to try sharing /home partitions, let me know
how it works for you. I might give it a try.
Best Regards,
Stephen.