Fw: Sharing swap and /boot

[Josh Glover]

Quoth Stephen J. Smith:

> I'm interested in sharing /boot also, which can be done supposedly.
> Anyone doing this?  I tried it once with SuSE and Fedora, but one of
> them completely overwrote /boot.  It's entirely possible I didn't
> configure the install correctly though.
>
> Do the installers typically handle sharing /boot?  Or is it a matter of
> migrating each /boot to the seperate partition after the install?

Installers that blow away /boot are evil. Yes, you can share /boot between
multiple distros--why not use the same kernel on SuSE and Fedora? They are
both running on the same hardware, after all.

Are you sure that you told the installer to preserve data on boot? If the
installer does not give you the option, you can always let it put /boot on the
/ partition, and then tweak /etc/fstab afterwards.

-- 
Josh Glover

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