On Tuesday 03 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > /etc, /var, /usr, /bin and so on I can see the (potential) problems. > But just /root ? It is a must to have it does not contain important > tuned up files, does it ? It is just an account that root use for > admin task, so is there a known problem to share it ? > > I used to mount /root aside from /.
Please don't top post. The / partition on any sane system *must* contain at least /bin, /sbin, /etc, /lib and /root (if those dirs are not available all kinds of trouble erupts at start time). init needs access to /etc/fstab so it can mount all the other file systems, so you automatically run into the /etc/init.d/ problems if you want to share / What possible benefit could you gain from having /root on a separate filesystem? It's usually tiny, has very few data subdirs and it's size is a fraction of even a minimal / alan > > Gal' > > 2007/4/2, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Monday 02 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about > > '[gentoo-user] Re: > > > > Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?': > > > And what's about sharing /root ? is there any problem or not ? I > > > never did it but was wondering about. > > > > No, different distros will require slightly different layouts in > > /etc (which is normally part of the same mount as /) and, in > > particular, will install (and confuse each other with) > > distro-specific scripts in /etc/init.d. > > > > -- > > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) > > ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' > > http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [email protected] mailing list
