Re: partitioning with dualboot 32 / 64

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Micha <codejodler@gmx.ch> writes:

> Thomas Steffen:
>> Even if you can, you still need to keep both installations up to date.
>> So mixing e.g. /usr/share means that it would be out of sync during an
>> upgrade. This may confuse the configuration scripts, and it is
>> probably not worth the hassle. You can only save a few GB anyway.
>
> ok.
>
>> You may want to have a separate /boot partition with grub on it, but 
>> I am not sure how you have to set that up. Maybe mount /boot/grub?
>
> Yes, i have that since years now. But i won't do it again, there's
> also no real need (especially with grub, vs. lilo) since we talk about
> less than 50 M here...

- Share /boot between multiple installs
- / crypetd
- software suspend with / on ext3 or other possibly not read-only
mountable fs

MfG
        Goswin