Re: [linux-audio-user] Distros these days? What a mess!

On Saturday 23 September 2006 2:06 pm, iainduncan@email-addr-hidden 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.
Received on Sun Sep 24 16:15:03 2006