Using swap and home partition of ubuntu

TakisX · 2011-08-07 13:08:57

Can i do that ?

Ramses de Norre · 2011-08-07 13:21:09

Swap: yes, if you do not hibernate ubuntu and then boot arch or vice versa.
Home: not recommended, you'll run into conflicts due to dot-file format differences when the versions of programs differ between arch and ubuntu.

Xappe · 2011-08-07 14:50:06

Ramses de Norre wrote:

Home: not recommended, you'll run into conflicts due to dot-file format differences when the versions of programs differ between arch and ubuntu.

If you use the same partition I would use different usernames on the systems to avoid conflicts.

Shark · 2011-08-07 15:08:21

Some time ago i had a common home folder for Arch and Ubuntu. I had only one problem and that was with the rhythmbox because of a newer version in Arch- as pointed by Ramses de Norre. But all other stuff worked.

Dumbledore · 2011-08-07 20:38:10

Xappe's idea is good. You can use separate names for the users which shall take care of the dot-files. But then you may run into permission errors unless you make your files world-read/write/execut-able.

The other thing that you can probably do is:

Resize your /home in ubuntu using gparted into a very small partition and extract most of it's capacity into a partition you can call "Common". Mount this at /media/common and add this to the fstab of each distro and keep your data in this. Make sure you use different user names as Xappe suggested.

If you have a backup drive, this should be a fairly straight-forward process. You will however have to clean most of the bulk for gparted to be able to resize it.

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#1 2011-08-07 13:08:57

Using swap and home partition of ubuntu

#2 2011-08-07 13:21:09

Re: Using swap and home partition of ubuntu

#3 2011-08-07 14:50:06

Re: Using swap and home partition of ubuntu

#4 2011-08-07 15:08:21

Re: Using swap and home partition of ubuntu

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Re: Using swap and home partition of ubuntu

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