Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

2011-12-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:26:41 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: Thanks for the replies, I forgot about the config stuff sitting there in the home dir. I think the way around this for me is Pandu's suggestion of a different user name for each linux and using bind mount. I normally use the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

2011-12-27 Thread Adam Carter
. Is there anything in my current Gentoo /home and swap that locks them to the Gentoo install or can I share them between the two installs? No. As long as SUSE supports the file system on /home you're using in Gentoo it will work fine, and that's very likely. When you're booted into SUSE, run

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

2011-12-27 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 28/12/2011 10:28 AM, Adam Carter wrote: . Is there anything in my current Gentoo /home and swap that locks them to the Gentoo install or can I share them between the two installs? No. As long as SUSE supports the file system on /home you're using in Gentoo it will work fine, and that's very

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

2011-12-27 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Dec 28, 2011 7:52 AM, Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au wrote: Hi all, I usually use Gentoo as my normal Linux but a third party app I'm about to start using only runs on SUSE. To this end, I'm about to set aside a smaller partition and install the minimal amnount of SUSE I need to run the

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

2011-12-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 28 December 2011 02:21:25 Andrew Lowe wrote: Is there anything in my current Gentoo /home and swap that locks them to the Gentoo install or can I share them between the two installs? Beware! Whichever your preferred desktop (kde, gnome, whatever), having your whole home directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

2011-12-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 28, 2011 9:40 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: On Dec 28, 2011 7:52 AM, Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au wrote: Hi all, I usually use Gentoo as my normal Linux but a third party app I'm about to start using only runs on SUSE. To this end, I'm about to set aside

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

2011-12-27 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 28/12/2011 10:49 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Dec 28, 2011 9:40 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com mailto:cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: On Dec 28, 2011 7:52 AM, Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au mailto:a...@wht.com.au wrote: [snip] ... ... ... [snip] True. My suggestion would be

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

2011-12-27 Thread W.Kenworthy
If its only one app, why not use a small vm (qemu, vbox etc.)? - best of both worlds. Also, why only on Suse? - you can often work around differences with ld-preload and other tricks. BillK -Original Message- From: Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

2011-12-27 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 28/12/2011 1:30 PM, W.Kenworthy wrote: If its only one app, why not use a small vm (qemu, vbox etc.)? - best of both worlds. Basically because I've done nothing with these thingies and have no experience with them and therefore didn't think of them.. Might be worth looking into - got

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

2011-12-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au wrote: On 28/12/2011 10:49 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Dec 28, 2011 9:40 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com mailto:cont...@nileshgr.com wrote:       On Dec 28, 2011 7:52 AM, Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

2011-12-27 Thread W.Kenworthy
native) performance. Love vms for dev work - snapshot it regularly so you can wind back the clock when necessary ... BillK -Original Message- From: Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home