Re: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs?
Subject: Re: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs?
Date: Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 12:27:41PM -0500
In reply to:Brian Servis
Quoting Brian Servis(servis@purdue.edu):
> > Quoting Andrew White(awhite@tig.com.au):
> >
> >> 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 is correct. The only differences I recall finding were the
uid's and gid's.
--
Using TSO is like kicking a dead whale down the beach.
-- S. C. Johnson
_______________________________________________________
Wayne T. Topa <wtopa@mindspring.com>
Reply to: