[ale] need help to correct duplicate mount entries?

Michael B. Trausch fd0man at gmail.com
Wed May 25 02:59:40 EDT 2005


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Sean Johnson wrote:
> 
> 1. how can i correct this error i have apparently made? 
> 2. Is it possible or practical to share /etc between these 2 distros?
> 3. Is ext2 the best file system (smaller) or reiserfs (bigger) for
> /etc partition?
> 

In short:  You can't really share /etc between distributions.  At least,
not easily, without sharing root and then chrooting to another
distribution or something... and I'm not even entirely sure that will work.

This may give you more information about how you can lay out your
filesystems:

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEROOTFILESYSTEM

	- Mike

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