Re: Dual Boot System

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On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 00:43 -0500, Javier Perez wrote:
> My Idea is to have sda=SSD, sdb=HDD
> 
> 
> /dev/sda1 = /boot,  about 1G
> 
> /dev/sda2 = /   Ubuntu 50G aprox
> 
> /dev/sda3 = /   Fedora 50G aprox
> 
> /dev/sda4 = swap * (I know i know, let's forget about extended/logical
> for the moment)
> 
> /dev/sdb1= /MyData (to be available under both OS
> 
> 
> Then for both Ubuntu and Fedora, mount /home/myusername/MyData
> 
> 
> I worry about having /home as a separate disk and mounting it at boot
> time because I do not know if both Ubuntu and Fedora will always have
> the same version of KDE or GNOME or give the same meaning to the
> variables inside  the hidden directories. Seems to me it could create
> the kind of bugs that would be pernicious and very difficult to
> troubleshoot. 
> 
> 
> Is having a common /boot a good idea?

I can't speak for having a common /boot, but I can (speaking personally)
advise against having a common /home. I fell foul of this a few years
ago. Back then Fedora and Ubuntu had a different user numbering schema
(Fedora assigned the first user as no. 500 whereas Ubuntu had 1000. Now,
I think, these at least are common, but even having chown'ed all my
files and set up each system to have a common user numbering schema I
still ran into problems. As you rightly point out the different
configurations of Gnome kept fighting and changing the settings. It may
be different now - I don't know and I'm certainly not going to
experiment...

What I think I would do (and I stress I am no expert) is to have a
smallish /home in each disto and have a large "data" partition to which
both distros have access and use soft links to access the files therein.
(Again - just double-check that you are using the same user number in
both distros).

Hopefully someone who knows better than me will chime in with some
proper advice later...

HTH

Mark


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