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 1RfjcA-000757-DA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:51:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E205021C197; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:51:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svr-us4.tirtonadi.com (svr-us4.tirtonadi.com [69.65.43.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29B6521C119 for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:49:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com ([74.125.82.53]) by svr-us4.tirtonadi.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RfjZr-003H0w-QE for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:49:15 +0700 Received: by wgbds1 with SMTP id ds1so19849195wgb.10 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:49:12 -0800 (PST) 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 Received: by 10.227.208.13 with SMTP id ga13mr36940587wbb.4.1325040552045; Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:49:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.78.208 with HTTP; Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:49:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.78.208 with HTTP; Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:49:11 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <4EFA7D25.9050304@wht.com.au> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:49:11 +0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap From: Pandu Poluan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0015174c40266aec8904b51e0b70 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr-us4.tirtonadi.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - poluan.info X-Archives-Salt: d75de32b-021b-454c-8fd9-546d374fe899 X-Archives-Hash: 7930e838c217fc24649ae06445990f5e --0015174c40266aec8904b51e0b70 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Dec 28, 2011 9:40 AM, "Nilesh Govindarajan" wrote: > > > On Dec 28, 2011 7:52 AM, "Andrew Lowe" wrote: > > > > 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 > > > Another important factor is desktop environment. Various settings can cause troubles in either ones. True. My suggestion would be to not share your ~ directly, but instead share something *under* ~ E.g. : mkdir ~/sharedstuff mount /dev/sdxx ~/sharedstuff Another alternative would be to ensure that you are not using the same username in both OS, and just do a bindmount. Rgds, --0015174c40266aec8904b51e0b70 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


On Dec 28, 2011 9:40 AM, "Nilesh Govindarajan" <contact@nileshgr.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 28, 2011 7:52 AM, "Andrew Lowe" <agl@wht.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0I usually use Gentoo as my "norma= l" 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 in= stall the minimal amnount of SUSE I need to run the app. My question is reg= arding /home and swap. Is there anything in my current Gentoo /home and swa= p that "locks" them to the Gentoo install or can I share them bet= ween the two installs? What I mean by share is that when I boot up Gentoo c= an I mount /home and swap and everything is fully accessible and then reboo= t into SUSE and once again mount them and everything is once again fully ac= cessible?
> >
> > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0I'm not doing anything "snazz= y" such as LVM or encryption, just bog standard Linux. Any thoughts gr= eatly appreciated.
> >
> > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Regards,
> > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Andrew
> >
> Another important factor is desktop environment. Various settings can = cause troubles in either ones.

True.

My suggestion would be to not share your ~ directly, but instead share s= omething *under* ~

E.g. :

mkdir ~/sharedstuff
mount /dev/sdxx ~/sharedstuff

Another alternative would be to ensure that you are not using the same u= sername in both OS, and just do a bindmount.

Rgds,

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