Sharing file systems

[Jeff Vian]

On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 17:30 +0530, Sumeet Pal Singh wrote:
> HI
> I have ubuntu 5.10 on my system and using FC3 since it was released. I
> tried to install FC4 on my system by sharing the swap and /home
> partition between FC4 and ubuntu. The installation went well. I did
> not install KDE in FC4. 
> I was well aware of permission screw ups that this could lead to,
> hence I did not create any user (The UID and GID of root is preserved
> across Linux distros)
> 
> I booted in as root and created a new user with UID and GID same as on
> ubuntu.
> Now I booted in GNOME and it was completely configured!!!! Moreover
> gaim started and signed me in to all my accounts!!! This was first
> time login...
> 
> My question is that can is sharing /home okay for a long run or will
> it lead to problems. 
> Also can other file systems like /usr be shared along with this and if
> it can be  then under what restrictions??
> If any one has done this please let me know.
> 
AFAIK there should be no problems with sharing of /home. It is done all
the time by many of us.

You already took care of the issue of UID/GID values and that is the
only thing I have ever had problems with in sharing /home between
systems.

> Sumeet
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