On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 22:36:02 +0200 Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 Why not? He said that he wants to keep the .config type stuff separate, which would seem to make eminently good sense if he's going to be using different versions of various applications. And separate homes won't really add much overhead, since the .configs are pretty small, as we've noted. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100304173358.63c19c89.cele...@gmail.com
