On 11/10/05, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
/root needs to be on the root (/) partition for a number of reasons.
Particularly so that
you can boot without mounting all partitions. For the same reason,
/bin and /sbin and /etc need to be on the root partition. I don't
think you want to try to share the same root partition between
different distributions.
carl
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