Re: Sharing drives.

[chuck gelm <nc8q@gelm.net>]

Hi, Geoff:

 Yes.  Although the files (filesystem(s)) are not 'transferred'.
The filesystem is 'mounted'.
Each OS must be capable of mounting the filesystem's type:
second extended, reiserfs, third extended, minix, fat, vfat,
 ...whatever.

 I get the impression that each of the two distributions you mention
are on a separate physical hard drive. This is not necessary.
One can have multiple operating systems on a single physical drive.
Each would need a separate partition, AFAIK.

HTH, Chuck

geoff wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
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