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On 12/28/2011 04:21 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I usually use Gentoo as my "normal" Linux but a third party app I'm |
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> about to start using only runs on SUSE. To this end, I'm about to set |
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> aside a smaller partition and install the minimal amnount of SUSE I need |
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> to run the app. My question is regarding /home and swap. Is there |
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> anything in my current Gentoo /home and swap that "locks" them to the |
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> Gentoo install or can I share them between the two installs? What I mean |
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> by share is that when I boot up Gentoo can I mount /home and swap and |
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> everything is fully accessible and then reboot into SUSE and once again |
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> mount them and everything is once again fully accessible? |
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At a low level, only swap can't be shared 100% due to suspend to disk. |
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If you are not using suspend to disk, then you can share swap without |
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any problems. But if you suspend one OS and then boot into the other, |
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the suspend data is going to be corrupted. At best you'll crash when |
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trying to resume, at worst you'll resume OK but will get corrupted data. |
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At the OS level, /home can be shared without problems. At the |
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application level (and I'm talking about KDE, Gnome and other DEs here), |
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you could get bugs or weird behavior due to using different versions of |
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the same DE. |
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