Re: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs?
*- On 24 Jul, Wayne Topa wrote about "Re: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs?"
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> Subject: Re: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs?
> Date: Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 11:26:02PM +1000
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> In reply to:Andrew White
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> Quoting Andrew White(awhite@tig.com.au):
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>> In addition to this, Is there any problems sharing the same /home between 2 distros.
>>
> Not for the _same_ distro, it isn't. I do share /home with hamm and
> slink. I tried it with Slackware and Slink and screwed Slink up
> badly! Seems that slackeware starts their user id's at 500, whereas
> Debian starts them at 1000. Took me a while to fix all of that mess.
> I would not recommend it to anyone.
>
> HTH, YMMV, HAND
>
The thing to do is make sure that as soon as you get the individual
distributions set up you need to edit the /etc/passwd and /etc/group
files to be consistent between each with regards to uid #'s and gid #'s.
Once this is done you shouldn't have any problems.
--
Brian
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