Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D)

Hi :)
The /home and the linux-swap partitions can be shared by different distros each having a / on a 
different small partition.  For Ubuntu i try to use 8GB partitions for / but it really doesn't need 
more than 5GB if the /home is separate.  Most other distros can cope happily with much less.  

If you use the same DE (Gnome, KDE, LxDE or whatever) then it can make some of the distros look a 
bit strange unless you use a different user-name which often kinda defeats the object of sharing 
the /home
Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Tue, 18/10/11, planas <jslozier@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: planas <jslozier@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D)
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Tuesday, 18 October, 2011, 22:55
> On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 20:56 +0100,
> Tom Davies wrote: 
>
> > Hi :)
> > Ahh great.  I just don't know my way around Unity
> yet.  Anyway using the same tool you used before sounds
> like a good option ;)  

<snip />

> > You need to set one partition to be / as that is where
> the OS and programs go.  It needs to be the same
> partition type as it was before, probably ext4 or
> ext3.  It is good to have a separate /home partition
> but that is usually in the same partition as the / first
> time you try Gnu&Linux.  Note that /home is a
> sub-folder inside / and contains user
> data&settings.  
> >

<snip />

> One trick I have been using is to use two different
> partitions for a
> base Linux install. The smaller one is the "/" partition
> and the larger
> one is /home partition. This allows only updating the OS
> without
> affecting the user data. To do this, I select the option to
> do a custom
> install during installation. 


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