On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 00:43 -0500, Javier Perez wrote: > My Idea is to have sda=SSD, sdb=HDD > > > /dev/sda1 = /boot, about 1G > > /dev/sda2 = / Ubuntu 50G aprox > > /dev/sda3 = / Fedora 50G aprox > > /dev/sda4 = swap * (I know i know, let's forget about extended/logical > for the moment) > > /dev/sdb1= /MyData (to be available under both OS > > > Then for both Ubuntu and Fedora, mount /home/myusername/MyData > > > I worry about having /home as a separate disk and mounting it at boot > time because I do not know if both Ubuntu and Fedora will always have > the same version of KDE or GNOME or give the same meaning to the > variables inside the hidden directories. Seems to me it could create > the kind of bugs that would be pernicious and very difficult to > troubleshoot. > > > Is having a common /boot a good idea?
I can't speak for having a common /boot, but I can (speaking personally) advise against having a common /home. I fell foul of this a few years ago. Back then Fedora and Ubuntu had a different user numbering schema (Fedora assigned the first user as no. 500 whereas Ubuntu had 1000. Now, I think, these at least are common, but even having chown'ed all my files and set up each system to have a common user numbering schema I still ran into problems. As you rightly point out the different configurations of Gnome kept fighting and changing the settings. It may be different now - I don't know and I'm certainly not going to experiment... What I think I would do (and I stress I am no expert) is to have a smallish /home in each disto and have a large "data" partition to which both distros have access and use soft links to access the files therein. (Again - just double-check that you are using the same user number in both distros). Hopefully someone who knows better than me will chime in with some proper advice later... HTH Mark -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
