Re: Can I use partitions on amd64 and i386?
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 07:09:04PM +0100, Alexander Syring wrote:
> Hi
> I want rebuild my system and I want to install sid amd64 and sid i386 with
> dual boot and/or chroot.
> now my question is how many partitions I should make.
> I thought it so:
>
> /boot for both
> / one for amd64 and one for i386
> /home for both
> /usr for both
> /files for both
> /opt for both
>
> is that ok or does exist there any problems with one partition for /usr
> or /opt to mount it into i386 or amd64?
You can not share /usr since /usr/bin, /usr/sbin and /usr/lib contain
architecture specific files. /usr/share might be shareable but would
still conflict for package installs due to overlap. Best choice is to
not share anything dpkg owns, so no /var, /usr, /, /etc, and so on. You
can share /home and anywhere else you manage yourself. /opt is hardly a
standard so whatever you think it is used for is probably fine. The
common use would not be fine to share since it too would have
architecture specific files.
Len Sorensen
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