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From: Andrew Lowe <agl@wht.com.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:32:21 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EFA7FB5.9080509@wht.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC=wYCEpgEZSSN-n+MezMqZU-SukHW7_mCJ0usVavbZbi6v9Dg@mail.gmail.com>

On 28/12/2011 10:28 AM, Adam Carter wrote:
>> . 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?
>
> No. As long as SUSE supports the file system on /home you're using in
> Gentoo it will work fine, and that's very likely. When you're booted
> into SUSE, run cat /proc/filesystems to see what it supports. If your
> Gentoo /home file system is not there, you may need to load the
> module, eg. on this system;
> # grep ext /proc/filesystems
> ext2
> ext4
> # modprobe ext3
> # grep ext /proc/filesystems
> ext2
> ext4
> ext3
>
>

Good, thanks for that.

	Andrew



  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-28  2:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-28  2:21 [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap Andrew Lowe
2011-12-28  2:28 ` Adam Carter
2011-12-28  2:32   ` Andrew Lowe [this message]
2011-12-28  2:37 ` Nilesh Govindarajan
2011-12-28  2:49   ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-28  5:26     ` Andrew Lowe
2011-12-28  5:40       ` Michael Mol
2011-12-28  9:14       ` Neil Bothwick
2011-12-28  2:44 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-12-28  2:46 ` [gentoo-user] " Peter Humphrey
2011-12-28  5:30 ` W.Kenworthy
2011-12-28  5:37   ` Andrew Lowe
2011-12-28  6:01     ` W.Kenworthy

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