From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Rfm7o-0002jz-4j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:32:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 01F8921C1B8; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:32:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.148]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BE9B21C1B5 for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:30:51 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av8EAPSo+k58qb8x/2dsb2JhbABChQ+nPIEFgXIBAQEEAQIgYgQLDQQDAQIDAiYCAigeCQgZq32RK4Evh0aCBIEWBIg1iiiHdCCMUg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,419,1320595200"; d="scan'208";a="746967629" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([124.169.191.49]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 28 Dec 2011 13:30:44 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 153329348C for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:30:44 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at lan.localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.lan.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ICgKjoUm-qS0 for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:30:41 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.49.2] (unknown [192.168.49.2]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3BD098345 for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:30:39 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap From: "W.Kenworthy" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4EFA7D25.9050304@wht.com.au> References: <4EFA7D25.9050304@wht.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: Home in Perth, Western Australia Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:30:37 +0800 Message-ID: <1325050237.1630.1056.camel@bunyip> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 132249de-1b79-4948-b3d1-0a9df87ad158 X-Archives-Hash: deb92d76bf809818cb91222aa638fe15 If its only one app, why not use a small vm (qemu, vbox etc.)? - best of both worlds. Also, why only on Suse? - you can often work around differences with ld-preload and other tricks. BillK -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Lowe Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:21:25 +0800 Hi all, I usually use Gentoo as my "normal" Linux but a third party app I'm about to start using only runs on SUSE. To this end, I'm about to set aside a smaller partition and install the minimal amnount of SUSE I need to run the app. My question is regarding /home and swap. Is there anything in my current Gentoo /home and swap that "locks" them to the Gentoo install or can I share them between the two installs? What I mean by share is that when I boot up Gentoo can I mount /home and swap and everything is fully accessible and then reboot into SUSE and once again mount them and everything is once again fully accessible? I'm not doing anything "snazzy" such as LVM or encryption, just bog standard Linux. Any thoughts greatly appreciated. Regards, Andrew