Sharing partitons

[A1ex]

rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:

>On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:23:23 -0500, A1ex <radsky at ncia.net> wrote:
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>>I have multiple Linux's installed, all sharing a common swap partition.
>>This seems to work OK.
>>Question:  Is it practical to share other partitions such as /home,
>>/root, /var and others between
>>a number of Linux systems?  Which partitions could be shared and which
>>not.?  Benefits or problems?
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>Have a look at the FHS: 
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>http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
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>There is a lot of information.
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There sure is!!

> Do a word search on shareable and
>you'll find info like this:
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>"Some portions of /var are not shareable between different systems.
>For instance, /var/log, /var/lock, and /var/run. Other portions may be
>shared, notably /var/mail, /var/cache/man, /var/cache/fonts, and
>/var/spool/news."
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>
Good info----thanks

alex, the OF