trigggl Posted September 6, 2003 Share Posted September 6, 2003 I noticed that Mandrake set up 3 drives. One is for the root directory, one for the home directory and a swap file.I was wondering if I could have multiple distro, each with their own root drive, but have them all share the home or swap drives? Now that I think about it, distros like Slack and Mandrake are probably incompatible, but you don't know until you ask. If it could be done, it would probably take some diligent setup. I doubt that anything like this could be set up initially. It would probably have to be switched to it, and then in the case of the home directory, a lot of pointers would have to change. I guess I'm just looking for a way to save redundant space.I guess one would have to be careful to go back to the last distro in case of a crash to recover lost files in swap before going to a different one. I don't think I've heard any talk on this subject and it's got me interested. Why have two swap files? It's temporary data anyways, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted September 6, 2003 Share Posted September 6, 2003 Greg,You can only share the /swap partition . . . . if you share the /home the personal settings, but also the version numbers of KDE and Evolutin etc. have to be exact the same, and they never are . . . Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigggl Posted September 7, 2003 Author Share Posted September 7, 2003 Thanks for that info, Bruno. That makes sense. I guess one thing I could do is set up a partition for all of my documents,music, images and downloads. I wonder if I'm violating MS Intellectual Property if I call it /My_Documents?For sharing the swap file in, say, Red Hat, would I let Red Hat reformat the swap partition for it to recognize it? That wouldn't mess Mandrake up would it?Thanks again for your help! Even with out the marriage counseling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted September 7, 2003 Share Posted September 7, 2003 GregRedHat will recognize the /swap . . and it does not have to be re-formatted, it´s okay as it is . . . . XP . . . . . I know zero about XP . . . : wrong forum wrong moderator : !! ( why not call that partition Backup . . and format it Fat32 so Windows AND Linux can read and write to it ?? ) Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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