Partitioning Disk

[Liam Proven]

2009/7/31 Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>:

[...]
> There are reasons for doing things this way. For instance if you where
> to want to dual boot your machine with multiple linux distros, you could
> choose to have a seperate /home and mount it in each.

I have routinely done this in the past. I've had 1 PC with Suse,
Mandriva, Ubuntu and Xandros (say) all sharing the same /home
partition+filesystem.

If you want to keep the accounts separate, just use different login
IDs. I used liam-ubuntu, liam-suse etc.

But you can use the same ID and keep the same desktop across them all.
This works OK, but if you mix KDE & GNOME you'll get some redundant
icons from one that don't work in the other, and occasionally, you may
have to do a text-mode login and "chown" across the folder to fix
permissions.

But still, it does work.

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