On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 06:34:25 -0500 The Other <sstubbs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Saturday 23 September 2006 2:06 pm, iainduncan@xxxxxxxxx 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. I've been sharing the home partition between different Mdk distros for years, and more recently between Mdk and Debian. I set up different *users* for each distro but with a common share directory (with public r/w permission) for documents, photos music etc. That way distro specific stuff doesn't get mixed up. Sometimes there is a slight issue with write permissions, but a quick chmod sorts that out - otherwise I've had no problems. -- Will J G
