On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 18:25 -0400, David Niemi wrote: > Yes, generally a multi-version install has been covered just want to > know about re-using some of the partitions. > > /dev/sdc2 7.6G 3.8G 3.5G 53% / > /dev/sdc1 145M 31M 107M 22% /boot > /dev/shm 1005M 0 1005M 0% /dev/shm > /dev/sdc7 9.7G 1.1G 8.1G 12% /home > /dev/sdc3 7.7G 2.5G 4.9G 34% /os2 > /dev/sdc5 6.7G 938M 5.4G 15% /var > > I've FC4 i386_x64 installed and for testing compilation would like to > install the regular i386 version. Reusing the swap partition should be > fine, install /boot onto the / partition instead of causing problems > with my main install. The /os2 partition is where I'm going to install > the other version. > > Will it cause problems re-using /home and /var (probably problems with > the latter). I'll probably have to backup /home (cp -pR), install, > create user(s), login then out and then as root copy everything back. Don't even think about sharing /var. Amongst the things in there are the RPM database for the OS, which will be different for the two versions. Sharing /home won't be a big issue if the UIDs and GIDs you use on the two systems are the same for regular users. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
