Sharing file systems

[Anthony Messina]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 19 March 2006 12:41, Jeff Vian wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> There is one caveat I'd toss out Jeff, and thats that the options for 
> setting up a default ext3 system ARE different between FC stuffs, and 
> debian stuffs.  In my case, the exact same version number of e2fsck 
> (1.35) refuses to pass or even check, the other installs ext3 
> filesystems.  So dual booting between FC4 and debian 3.1r1 is at best a 
> pita.
> 
> I'm next going to put Ubuntu-5.10 on that box in place of FC, so maybe 
> that will be self healing.
> 
i'm not sure, 'cuase i've never done this, but if the gnome versions are 
different, there may be some gnome/nautilus issues if one config 
overwrites/changes things and the other can't handle the changes.

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Anthony

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