Hi Arthur That is exactly the scenario that I want to avoid by having separate /home and soft-linking the Data partition.
I wonder should I set /var on the HDD to save wear and tear on the SSD? JP On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Arthur Dent <misc.li...@blueyonder.co.uk>wrote: > On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 00:43 -0500, Javier Perez wrote: > > My Idea is to have sda=SSD, sdb=HDD > > > > > > /dev/sda1 = /boot, about 1G > > > > /dev/sda2 = / Ubuntu 50G aprox > > > > /dev/sda3 = / Fedora 50G aprox > > > > /dev/sda4 = swap * (I know i know, let's forget about extended/logical > > for the moment) > > > > /dev/sdb1= /MyData (to be available under both OS > > > > > > Then for both Ubuntu and Fedora, mount /home/myusername/MyData > > > > > > I worry about having /home as a separate disk and mounting it at boot > > time because I do not know if both Ubuntu and Fedora will always have > > the same version of KDE or GNOME or give the same meaning to the > > variables inside the hidden directories. Seems to me it could create > > the kind of bugs that would be pernicious and very difficult to > > troubleshoot. > > > > > > Is having a common /boot a good idea? > > I can't speak for having a common /boot, but I can (speaking personally) > advise against having a common /home. I fell foul of this a few years > ago. Back then Fedora and Ubuntu had a different user numbering schema > (Fedora assigned the first user as no. 500 whereas Ubuntu had 1000. Now, > I think, these at least are common, but even having chown'ed all my > files and set up each system to have a common user numbering schema I > still ran into problems. As you rightly point out the different > configurations of Gnome kept fighting and changing the settings. It may > be different now - I don't know and I'm certainly not going to > experiment... > > What I think I would do (and I stress I am no expert) is to have a > smallish /home in each disto and have a large "data" partition to which > both distros have access and use soft links to access the files therein. > (Again - just double-check that you are using the same user number in > both distros). > > Hopefully someone who knows better than me will chime in with some > proper advice later... > > HTH > > Mark > > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > -- ------------------------------ /\_/\ |O O| pepeb...@gmail.com ~~~~ Javier Perez ~~~~ While the night runs ~~~~ toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch.
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