[Gllug] Multiple Distro's, one swap partition?

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Mon Mar 8 11:35:58 UTC 2004


On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:29:02PM +0100, John Hearns wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Alain Williams wrote:
> 
> > 
> > You will probably also want to shart /home. Be careful, some distros do create some
> > user directories under /home, you will want to keep these separate.
> > 
> Hmmm. That's an interesting topic to discuss.
> 
> I assume that all distros these days adhere to the Linux Standards Base
> http://www.linuxbase.org

OK, I am probably out of date - some used to.

> BTW, the LSB would be a good thing to point to if FUD is being spread
> about Linux, along the lines of "Too many distros make the whole Linux
> thing an incompatible nightmare"
> 
> 
> A quick check on a Fedora and a SuSE system reveals no system-type 
> accounts with home dirs in /home
> Has anyone seen clashes like this between different distros?

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