wiseguy12851
January 4th, 2011, 04:11 AM
I'm thinking about installing several distros, but the actual number depends on which folders I can share since I don't want to run into space issues.
Here are the folders / partition's I'm interested in sharing between distros:
swap
/boot
/tmp
/usr
/var
/opt
/home
Now I know for sure I can share swap and tmp folders, I've read mixed reviews about sharing the actual home folder. Most people say it will work but some advise against it.
I've read only a couple of reviews saying it's okay to share the /boot directory, but personally that sounds like a highly sensitive area of the distro to freely share between distros.
Every review I've read has advised not to think about the /usr directory, I don't understand - if you can share the home folder which contains program configurations
why can't you share the /usr folder itself which contains several of the actual programs.
The others are /var and /opt, I believe I can share the /opt folder but am questionable about /var because of it's similarities to /usr in that it contains variable data by programs.
Are there any other folders that can be shared as well such as /etc?
Here are the folders / partition's I'm interested in sharing between distros:
swap
/boot
/tmp
/usr
/var
/opt
/home
Now I know for sure I can share swap and tmp folders, I've read mixed reviews about sharing the actual home folder. Most people say it will work but some advise against it.
I've read only a couple of reviews saying it's okay to share the /boot directory, but personally that sounds like a highly sensitive area of the distro to freely share between distros.
Every review I've read has advised not to think about the /usr directory, I don't understand - if you can share the home folder which contains program configurations
why can't you share the /usr folder itself which contains several of the actual programs.
The others are /var and /opt, I believe I can share the /opt folder but am questionable about /var because of it's similarities to /usr in that it contains variable data by programs.
Are there any other folders that can be shared as well such as /etc?