Re: partition sharing

["Adam Williams" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 6,  6:10pm, rob kent wrote:
> Subject: partition sharing
> this is kind of an extension of the "sharing swap partitions" discussion
> from last week.  my question: exactly how far can partition sharing safely
> go?  i'm interested in running redhat and slackware side by side, and
> switching back and forth relatively seamlessly.  would it be safe, for
> instance, to share the /tmp partition?  how about /home?
>

In theory one should be able to share /tmp and /home certainly.  And probably
/var as well.  Depending on the library versions on each distro you might even
be able to do /usr/local.