Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I have Fedora-7 and Fedora-8 on the same computer.
> Can I share /var between them?
> (I have the Fedora-7 /var on a separate partition.
> If possible, I'd like to use this with the new system.)
why? Are there specific files you would like to share?
Sharing /var between systems is the road to madness.
A simple example:
RPM keeps its database in /var/lib/rpm
if you share /var/ between F7 and F8 you are going to seriously mess up
updates - the database is used to decide what you have installed and
whether an update is valid or not (among other things)
> Any suggestions gratefully received.
The only sensible reason I can see for this is sharing (for example)
server content (/var/www/html /var/named etc) between installed systems.
In this situation I would seriously consider reconfiguring your servers
to use /srv as their "documentroot" (or the equivalent for each specific
server). This you should be able to share without messing up rpm,
logging (etc etc)
Kind Regards,
Stuart
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