On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:11:43AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:29:51AM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 07:15:35PM +1000, Arafangion wrote: > > > Digby Tarvin wrote: > > > > > <snip> > > > >This is my initial though on the partitioning of the 60GB drive on my > > > >Debian laptop: > > > > XP -10.00GB > > > > boot - 0.10GB ?? > > > > sys 1 > > > > root - 0.15GB > > > > usr - 2.00GB > > > > var - 2.00GB > > > > sys 2 > > > > root - 0.15GB > > > > usr - 2.00GB > > > > var - 2.00GB > > > > shared > > > > swap - 1.00GB > > > > tmp - ramfs? > > > > home -10.00GB > > > > home2 -10.00GB > > > > local -20.00GB > > > > > > > Three comments I can make so far: > > > 1) Why the two home directories? If you keep your /etc/passwd and > > > /etc/groups in sync, you should not have issues between the two /home's. > > > (Then again, conflicts between multiple versions of gnome or kde, etc, > > > could be an issue - how about a "shared" space, and make /home just a > > > gig each) > > > > Oh no - I wasn't intending separate home directories for the two > > systems. Everything in the region labelled 'shared' is as the name > > implies... > > > > It is just a personal convention that I keep a separate encrypted > > home2 partition for sensitive stuff, which I only mount when needed. > > I've pondered this issue a bit. what about this idea, slightly OT to > your original post but ... > > place a /home in each root partition (one for each distro) and then > within that home have a mount point for all your "stuff" within ~. > The idea being that each distro could write all its various and > possibly conflicting ~/.<random config file> in the ~ located in > the root partition, but place all the "neutral" stuff like documents, > project, photos whatever into the other partition with links to it > all. > > for example: > > in /etc/fstab of each distro: > > /dev/hd12 /home/me/my_stuff ext3 etc... > > then in each / of each distro: > > mkdir /home/me > mkdir /home/me/my_stuff > > this way, with two sets of /home/me the crucially incompatible stuff > stays hidden from the other distro. > > lots of noise for a simple idea. > > A Just this morning I was thinking of filing a wishlist bug against Debian HFS. It should include policy about what GUI systems (gnome, KDE, etc.) are allowed to install in a user's ~/ . Different dists within Debian install different versions of GUI which in turn step on each others files in ~/. I don't think any user action is workable without help from an enforced policy.
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