[Novalug] multibooting partition setup

Jay Hart jhart@kevla.org
Sat Feb 16 22:15:50 EST 2008


> Logical partitions work well with all distributions. I save primary
> partitions for Windows and Free BSD.

I'll go this route then, as this is what I was thinking anyway.

>
> A shared FAT partition is useful for moving data between Linux and
> Windows. A shared ext2 or ext3 partition is useful when working with
> different Linux partitions.
>
FAT, what the hell is that??  UFS on a NAS box meets the win/Lin share
condition as well.

Ext3 all the way...

Jay


> Dave
>
> Jay Hart wrote:
>> I'm getting ready to multiboot several distros where each distro is getting
>> its own partition where the whole file system lives (swap will be shared).
>> Should I:
>>
>> 1. Install each distro to a separate primary partition
>> or
>> 2. install each distro on a separate logical partition
>>
>> I will have one shared drive for moving data between the distros if needed.
>>
>> I can see pros/cons of using each method above, I'm looking for other
>> opinions.
>> Jay
>>
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