begin quoting Ralph Shumaker as of Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 12:26:40PM -0800: > Would it be unwise to have a partition /home (or /root) being mounted as > /home (or /root) under various installs? Basicly I'm wondering if there > would be problems from having, say, rh9 and fc3 sharing /home (or /root). > > How bad could it be?
One of the reasons to put /home on a partition of its own is so that you can do just this... multiple distributions, one home directory. You'd need to make sure /etc/passwd and friends were set up correctly on each installation, or use LDAP/NIS+/whatnot to maintain user-account information. Doing the same for /root ... seems a bit trickier, but I can't think of why it wouldn't be doable. Can't say I've given much thought to how that would break. -Stewart "Perhaps with appropriate ACL protections?" Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
