On 10/29/06, Justin Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On AD 2006 October 29 Sunday 11:27:51 PM -0700, Christer Edwards wrote: > The trouble I'm running into now is with file permissions. Again, I'm > trying to share a /home between each distro (in an attempt to keep my > settings & profiles mobile between distros). I find that when I login > I get permission denied errors & GDM craps out on me. You need to match up the UID/GID of your /home users. ls -n /home will tell you the uid and gid. So, just vipw and vigr all your distros to match each other and chmod -R <my_uid>:<my_gid> /home/me This is one of the few complications you will run into running a multi distro box. I found after booting everything from Fedora to Gentoo to Debian to FreeBSD that I didn't spend so much time in the other distros to make it worthwhile as distros that share principal usage, meaning that with three distros you are going to spend at least three times as much distro maintaince time, three times as much 'configuring gnome' time, etc. (Although with that last one, as long as you're sharing a common /home shouldn't be so bad if each distro is using the same versions of stuff, because if they aren't you'll have interesting problems.) Justin /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
Christer, I am proud to say that I put you up to the LVM on '/'. I know it works in all three distros just fine. No problems, I've done it and tested them all. In addition, the LVM stuff everyone else has recommended may or may not be the best for what you are trying to do. I do like, however, the grub config provided by Bart as I've been interested in doing that sort of boot myself. The /home directory suggestions everyone is giving you are great too. I think once you've consolidated all of that, you'll like the installation process with LVM. And with added flexibility to "add space here" or "take space there" can be a nice feature overall. Not sure how much you'll use that, but learning LVM is nonetheless a great skill to have. Good luck, and I hope I can be of further assistance in "breaking" your machine, network, and overall spirit in the future. Cheers, Clint /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
