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 a smaller partition and install the minimal amnount of SUSE I need to run the app. My question is regarding /home and swap. 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? What I mean by share is that when I boot up Gentoo can I mount /home and swap and everything is fully accessible and then reboot into SUSE and once again mount them and everything is once again fully accessible? > > > > I'm not doing anything "snazzy" such as LVM or encryption, just bog standard Linux. Any thoughts greatly appreciated. > > > > Regards, > > Andrew > > > Another important factor is desktop environment. Various settings can cause troubles in either ones.
True. My suggestion would be to not share your ~ directly, but instead share something *under* ~ E.g. : mkdir ~/sharedstuff mount /dev/sdxx ~/sharedstuff Another alternative would be to ensure that you are not using the same username in both OS, and just do a bindmount. Rgds,
