Re: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs?
*- On 24 Jul, Mark Brown wrote about "Re: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs?"
> On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 11:22:26AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> The trick is to keep the numeric UID and GID information in sync. NIS
> is a wonderful thing.
>
But this won't help a multi-boot machine unless there is another
machine in the network serving as NIS server. For a stand alone home
machine your only choice is to edit by hand.
--
Brian
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