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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 00:47:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Directory structure question
On Thu, 8 May 2003 cpace@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
> I have both Mandrake and Knoppix so I can play back and forth. I have
> decided to put RH 9 (since I will be using it a lot more in the near
> future) and keep Knoppix. I believe that what I want to do is not
only
> possible but also recommended. I want to make a common /home
directory
> that both distro's can use. I believe what will need to be done is:
>
> hda1 NTFS Windows 2000 (Barely used but there in case
needed)
> hda2 Swap Shared between 2 linux distros
> hda3 Reiser FS Mandrake
> hda4 Reiser FS Knoppix
> hda5 Reiser FS /home shared by both distro's
>
> The only problem that I can forsee is that /hda5 will actually have to
> be a logical partition since you can only have 4 primary partitions.
> Has anyone done this?
Extended partitions? Sure, lots of times. Share a partition between
two
OSes? Never.
But I think what you want is this:
hda1 W2K
hda2 swap
hda3 /home
hda4 <takes up the rest of the disk>
hda5 Knoppix
hda6 Mandrake
Naturally, hda[345] can be shuffled around as you wish. You can even
have
hda2 be a FAT32-formatted partition, with one file in it, to which W2K,
Knoppix, and Mandrake all swap. Well, that was possible in W3.1, dunno
if
it's possible in W2K.
> I know what the pro's are but are there any con's I should be
concerned
> with.
If you have different versions of a program in Knoppix and
Mandrake/RedHat, and the prefs format changed between them, then the
older
one might get confused. Other than that, it should work fine.
-- -eben ebQenW1@EtaRmpTabYayU.rIr.OcoPm home.tampabay.rr.com/hactarThis message was created using recycled electrons.
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