to dual boot linux
Vram
lamsokvr at xprt.net
Wed Oct 19 07:27:12 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 00:00 -0700, AA wrote:
> Hello, I am currently dual booting windowxp and ubuntu
> 5.10 with no problems. I want to know if it is safe
> to allow two different linux installations to share
> the same /home drive?
> I have windows on one HD, then I have a second HD for
> my / and swap, and a third that is my /home. What I
> want to do is split the / HD into two / partitions,
> install ubuntu on one and install demudi on the other,
> but I want to use the same /home HD for both.
> Is this safe, or should I also split the /home into
> seperate partitions for each OS? Do I need to enable
> the large file support for an ext3 partition of I will
> be recording audio to it?
> Thanks in advance,
> SMH
>
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The only thing I know to worry about is your <user> id number..
If it is different then you can have problems..
Good luck
Vram
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