Patrick Bartek wrote: <snip> > Wouldn't the sleeping/hibernating system file have a unique designation? i have never looked into what is actually done, but i would imagine that within first few bytes of *swap partition* there would be some form of coding to indicate if partition contained hibernation data. for sure, if you designate in grub.config menu that there is a swap/hibernation/restore partition, there is a check made during system boot. as to bytes being unique to a particular distrib and version, i can not say. if it does not designate such, there can/may/will be problems when booting system tries to restore from a hibernation it did not set up. > During the days of the 1024 cylinder limit a single /boot partition was > SOP. Never had any problems booting multiple Linux installs with different > kernels, etc. 'boot' or '/boot'? how many of those systems had hibernation? also, remember, 1024 cylinders were both physical and logical. one cylinder could have been 2 to 256 surfaces, depending on how many platters and read/write heads where used and how oem configured. or was 64 or 512? too long to recall. :) > True. But, as you said, you'd have to be careful with the bookkeeping to > keep everything straight. K.I.S.S. is my motto. Also, "You can't fix > stupid!" ;-) well i guess that shows i am not stupid because i do it and have not problems with 4 different installations. <snip> > There are "other" ways, yes, but whether they're "better" depends on user > needs and system requirements. if one '/home' can be shared among 4 installations, i would say that is a better way to make use of a '/home' partition and disk space. > Used to when testing a particular distro for consideration, I would install > the entire distro on its / partition. No /home or /boot, etc. partitions. > Then edit my default system's grub.conf to boot it directly. No > chainloading. I might 4 or 5 distro tests done this way. Not the "best" > way, but it kept everything isolated and made it easy to get rid of > completely when I wanted to. this i do also, but after testing, i move user's home directory to '/home' partition with a new name and then alter 'passwd' and 'fstab' to show changes. '/boot' i leave alone. > Today, I use VMs. Much easier. if i had fast multi core / cpu and enough memory, i would be running a vm. at this time it is not possible. problem is, when i can afford them, by then, with new mainboard, i will not have to give up keyboard and thumb marble i now use because they are ps2. :( anyway, as i said, what works for you and you can maintain, that is what you should use. and 'you' as plural. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
-- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
