FC2 and FC1 and common home

Leonard den Ottolander leonard at den.ottolander.nl
Sun Apr 4 19:26:46 UTC 2004


Hi Michael,

> Are they any "gotcha's" related to using the same /home partition for
> both FC2 and FC1?

Specific for FC1 and FC2 is the SELinux context information that needs
to be set on newly created files
(http://people.redhat.com/kwade/fedora-docs/selinux-faq-en/).

In general the problem with using multiple distributions/releases on one
system is that you don't want the applications to overwrite
configuration data from the other installations. This is why I use a
/data partition instead of /home. Symlink /home/user/data to /data/user.
This way you can share data between installations, but need not be
afraid that configuration information gets ruined.

Leonard.

-- 
mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research






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