Quoting Robert G. Scofield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > How can you have two home directories?
By creating a second one, and specifying its use in the role of /home when installing the second distribution. (I'm not trying to be flip: I'm serious, and will explain further.) > For example, these are the relevant partitions on this system: > > /dev/hdb2 has SuSE 9.2 > /dev/hdb3 is the spare > /dev/hdb7 is /home > > It seems like any new distro put into /dev/hdb3 will automatically use > /dev/hdb7 (which SuSE 9.2 is using), right? No. You should, in basically any distribution's installer, be able to initiate creation of any new filesystems you wish to exist, and also specify explicit mountpoints for any and all filesystem. So, when you install the second distribution, if you have free disk space, you might create /dev/hdb8 using some of that disk space, and specify that the second distro should use /home as its mountpoint. Alternatively, you could install the second distribution _entirely_ within /dev/hdb3, ignoring entirely the opportunity to specify a separate mountpoint for /home . (You could, if you wished, cause the second distro to automount /dev/hdb7 at mountpoint /home-on-suse or similar, if you needed access to those partitions' files. Ditto mountpoint /rootdir-on-suse or similar for /dev/hdb2. However, you might have some serious problems keeping the owning users and groups aligned between the two distros, given likelihood of differing UID and GID assignments between the distros' /etc/passwd and /etc/group files.) > Is there anyway to install a new distro on /dev/hdb3 and have it use a > /home on /dev/hdb3? You betcha. Just assign the new distro's "/" (root directory) mountpoint to /dev/hdb3, and just avoid assigning mountpoint "home" to /dev/hdb7. Then, /home will live within /dev/hdb3 by default, rather than being on a separate filesystem. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
