NavyLT Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 I want to partition and install as follows: hda1, ext3, root partition for 2008.0 hda2, ext3, root partition for 2008.1 beta testing hda 5, swap, swap partition for both 2008.0 and 2008.1 hda6, ext3, /home partition for both 2008.0 and 2008.1 Is there any problem with two different versions of Linux using the same swap partition? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 Is there any problem with two different versions of Linux using the same swap partition? Not unless they're trying to use it the same time. :) I would also suggest that you use two different user/login names for that setup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 Nothing to add. Greg2 summed it up nicely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyLT Posted February 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 Not unless they're trying to use it the same time. :) I would also suggest that you use two different user/login names for that setup. Thanks! They wouldn't be active at the same time, either 2008.0 or 2008.1 would be selected off the boot menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 I would also suggest that you use two different user/login names for that setup. I can see why the config files might conflict with each other, but that would make it more difficult to share files. Should you maybe make an extra partition to hold the files that will be needed by the two users? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 I can see why the config files might conflict with each other, but that would make it more difficult to share files. Should you maybe make an extra partition to hold the files that will be needed by the two users?That's a very good point, and you are correct. :) However, I just (probably mistakenly) assumed that the OP just wanted to compare the two release versions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 Even when comparing two versions of the same distro, I have frequently encountered problems with config files, at least in KDE. Of course, when comparing with anything in cooker, the mess could just be cooker! I would recommend a small /home file for comparing, just to be safe. (Unless you like fixing things from the CLI.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 Of course you won't boot both versions at the same time. However, don't forget that "suspend to disk" is often configured by default to save the computer state to swap, thus rendering this swap still used although the OS is shut down. Conclusion: if you use the "suspend to disk" feature, don't share the swap partition, or be very sure of what you do else you'll break some filesystems beyond any possibility of recovery. Yves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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