On Thu,04.Mar.10, 13:54:30, postid wrote: > On the other hand, I could just let /home be a part of / for each > distro (as below) and back up the dot files regularly. > > hda1 -------- WinXP > hda2 -------- / for first distro > hda3 -------- / for second distro > hda4 -------- extended > hda5 -------- shared data partition > hda6 -------- swap Although I usually suggest having a separate /home it doesn't make much sense in your case. Just be careful to store anything that can get big on the data partition, including your mail store (if you are using offline mail readers). In my experience, the big stuff you usually want to have accessible from both distros anyway ;) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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