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From: Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:33:49
Message-Id: 4EFA7FB5.9080509@wht.com.au
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap by Adam Carter
1 On 28/12/2011 10:28 AM, Adam Carter wrote:
2 >> . Is there anything in my
3 >> current Gentoo /home and swap that "locks" them to the Gentoo install or can
4 >> I share them between the two installs?
5 >
6 > No. As long as SUSE supports the file system on /home you're using in
7 > Gentoo it will work fine, and that's very likely. When you're booted
8 > into SUSE, run cat /proc/filesystems to see what it supports. If your
9 > Gentoo /home file system is not there, you may need to load the
10 > module, eg. on this system;
11 > # grep ext /proc/filesystems
12 > ext2
13 > ext4
14 > # modprobe ext3
15 > # grep ext /proc/filesystems
16 > ext2
17 > ext4
18 > ext3
19 >
20 >
21
22 Good, thanks for that.
23
24 Andrew