partioning power pc and OSX/ubuntu dualboot

[Sebastian M=?ISO-8859-1?B?/A==?=sch]

Hi,

Romeyn Prescott wrote:

> Your idea of a shared "Home" partition is interesting.  There are
> instructions for moving Home in Mac OS X here:
> 
> http://www.bombich.com/mactips/homedir.html
> 
> I have done this successfully.  There are two questions to be
> answered, however:
> 1) Can the Home partition serving Mac OS X be UFS
> (ext3?) and 

UFS is not unified as it should be (Apples UFS supports ResourceForks, other
implementation don't) ;-) But apart from that, the filesystem on the
partition where your Home for MacOSX resides must be HFS+ or AppleUFS, as
these are the only modern filesystems which support resource-forks.

> 2) do Linux and OS X have any preference files in common
> (name) that are incompatible?

There are indeed many files they've in common and so you'll not be able to
use your OSX home within Linux and vice-versa:

- bash-prefs (profile, bash-rc)
- SSH-Config
- Firefox (if you are using it on OSX)
- ...

The hardest problem will be incorrect paths wirhin the prefs.

cu
Sebastian
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