RE: Weird looking partition table

["Steven Fullmer" <Steven_Fullmer tni com>]

This is a really good idea; I never thought to do this!

Steven Fullmer

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Knecht
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 10:31 AM
Subject: RE: Weird looking partition table


All of my RH kernels are in a single /boot partition. My Mandrake and
Gentoo kernels are in their own partitions. These '/boot' partitions are all
about 50MB if I remember correctly.

Each distribution's root (/) exists in its own partition. These partitions
are about 5-6GB each. This holds the majority of what gets installed.

I let each distribution create my /home/mark user directories. I have
another partition that holds my user data. In each distribution I create a
directory /home/mark/data, and then I mount my data partition there
automatically in fstab. This way, no matter which distribution I'm in I have
access to all my files. (No different than mounting a Windows FAT drive
under /mnt/windows for all three distributions.

- Mark