Re: /home
- From: houghi <houghi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:33:09 +0200
noi wrote:
So I think if you syncronize your userid, groupids it should fix the
problem.
Yes.
Not sure what happens to the swap file.
I asume this is a dual boot machine, so no issue there.
Make sure the /tmp file
permissions 777 or whatever though as long as it's on the separate /
partitions it shouldn't matter but if you /mnt/sda5 or /mnt/sda6 it makes
a difference.
Only if you decide to share /tmp do you need a seperate partition.
BTW, I love using a separate partition for /home. Allows me to install
new, upgrade or different distros while keeping the data intact. Of
course except for 3rd party programs installed to /usr.
That is the reason a seperate /home is now standard. It is to keep the
data. Naturaly more experienced users will have more partitions
depending on their needs.
On a shared system, you could even share much more then just /home or
/tmp. /opt is one you can share. /var might be sharable as well, or at
least parts of it, like /var/spool/mail. And then there is /srv for your
website and ...
It all depends on how much you want to go away from your standard
distribution installation and how much time and efford you want to put
into it.
You could go as far as only having seperate kernels. Now to the OP, I
can understand that you want to try out different distributions and what
I would do is, as a beginner, keep them seperated. Make a partition for
your data and symlink from your home directory to that, because it can
always be that one setting in your home directory does not work well
together with something the other is expecting.
As a beginner you might not understand or even detect what the problem
will be.
Also, don't try to many distributions, because then you won't realy
learn anything about Linux and more likely it will hold you back. The
best advice on choosing a distribution is to use that what the person
you are going to ask for help is using. So if you have somebody you will
go to in real life running Linux, ask what he runs and just pick that.
He can get you out of trouble and you can check out things for him. If
you don't have that.
What if you don't have a real life person to ask? I have noticed it is
easier to just go with one system that actualy installs and gets 90% of
the stuff running. Or go to a Linux User Group and you will have people
who you can ask in real life.
The way I got to SUSE was by trying out and SUSE was the first I was
able to install. I had tried RedHat before and Slack, but SUSE (I
thingk 5.4) was the first to recognise my videocard, so that I was able
to get it running.
houghi
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