<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 5, 2005, at 12:00 PM, Seti wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">One more thing to keep in<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>mind. Using the same /home partition for</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">seperate distros can be a bit tricky; in the past I've tried this and</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">found that it causes some conflicts in your /home, ie. different</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">distros want to set up config files in /home differently. If it can be</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">done without these kinds of problems arising, great, otherwise better</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to have a dedicated /home for each distro present on the disc.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Seti</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>An alternative to this would be to have seperate /home partitions but shared data partitions.</DIV><DIV>Ex (if you're running 3 distros)</DIV><DIV>/home X3 (one for each distro).</DIV><DIV>/home/Documents X1 (mounted within /home for each distro)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Also, I <I>think</I> that distros based on the same thing should be able to share better. In other words, Ubuntu and Debian Proper should be able to coexist using the same /home partition better than Ubuntu and Fedora/Red Hat or Mandrake.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>~Matt</DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"></FONT></BODY></HTML>