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From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:01:53
Message-Id: 200704021454.18511.bss03@volumehost.net
1 On Monday 02 April 2007, galevsky@×××××.com wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re:
2 Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?':
3 > And what's about sharing /root ? is there any problem or not ? I never
4 > did it but was wondering about.
5
6 No, different distros will require slightly different layouts in /etc
7 (which is normally part of the same mount as /) and, in particular, will
8 install (and confuse each other with) distro-specific scripts
9 in /etc/init.d.
10
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