From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "geoff" Subject: Sharing drives. Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 08:52:26 +0100 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <000501c269e8$b8ca73c0$af33f7c2@gcb> Reply-To: "geoff" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org I have a dual-boot Linux system. Debian 3.0 (Woody), and SuSE 8.0 (Prof)., on separate drives sharing a common machine (Pentium III at 600 MHz). Both work well, and I am enjoying learning the differences between them, running them as separate alternatives. Would it be inadvisable to have a third hard disk drive on the same shared machine, which is mountable on either distro, in order to enable files from (say) Debian to be transfered into SuSE, (or vice-vers) or would I be asking for trouble ? Can I use a common device (say) /dev/hdc as a common part of two partition systems ? A possible use would be to YaST/ RPM into Debian, or APT/ DEB into SuSE. Best regards, Geoff Bagley G3FHL. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs