Re: Can two distros share /home?
From: Unruh (unruh-spam_at_physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 07/02/05
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Date: 2 Jul 2005 21:48:57 GMT
"Lee" <leeward@msa.attmil.ne.jp> writes:
>I have Fedora on my computer right now, but I've been wanting to try
>out Gentoo. I have a 20 GB space on my hard drive with an OS I never
>use anymore that I'm going to give to Gentoo. My question is, can
>Gentoo share a /home partition with Fedora? I'll take it one step
Sure. the only problem can be if you have different versions of some
programs (eg kde) with different files in the home directory (.kde
directory for example).
>farther, can it also share my /usr partition (though the /home is more
>important)? Thanks in advance.
/usr is much harder. In principle yes, in practice the two could have
different version, packages etc. I would not do it.
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