Sharing /home isn't so hard if there are only a few users. I do it at home where there is just me and (occasionally) my wife.
I have thought of sharing /opt and perhaps /usr/local, but have been worried that in addition to the stuff that I install by hand some rpms or debs will put stuff there. I don't want to mix that stuff. On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 12:19:18AM +0518, USM Bish wrote: > Yes, I have Slackware and Debian on the same system. > The only things I share are the swap partition, /opt > and an unusual partition I use called /archive which > holds my software archives, downloads, html, music, > graphics, and shared data files. > > I tried to share /home, but gave up because of the > userid problems between systems. Doing with system > dirs like /usr, /var, /etc, /tmp etc. should NOT be > tried because of userid, permissions, ownerships and > numerous other mismatches. > > I keep several commonly used programs in /opt which > includes mainly third party software which I install > manually to be used by both systems. The following > programs run perfectly well from /opt across both > systems: netscape, xv, maxwell, abiword, WordPerfect > Ted, jdk1.2, nasm, BlueFish and numerous scripts and > programs. All these programs are statically linked & > would run independently. Note : "/opt/bin" is on my > default path set in /etc/profile of both systems. > > USM Bish > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 12:34:07PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Another question (It's half off-topic, I know): > > I'm installing Red Hat. Is there anyone that has 2 different linux OS's in > > the same machine, and was able to optimize disk space? Say, symlink a few > > directories (/home, for example) from one installation to another? It would > > not only optimize disk space, but it would keep the same user files under > > both installations. > > > > Thanks again, > > Gaucho > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Scott V. McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I lost my GnuPG Key. Nobody ever sent me the secret plans anyway. GnuPG is at http://www.gnupg.org/