Multiboot with shared data
by robcampbell from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4TW03)
Is it acceptable and easy to share data between distros?
I am thinking of installing Lint, Ubuntu and Fedora (which is my usual distro) but I want to keep all the same user accounts (which I feel is fairly easy, since they are on their own partition) /home constant through all distros (luks). I have an encrypted partition of data for multimedia which seems the simplest since it just needs to be mounted and not really tied to anything except some scripts that the users have in their directories. I also want to use my mysql db on each of the distros which in my head would be the difficult part (along with having all the users aligned properly). There is also a partition for web development /var/lib/www although I could get rid of that and just allow users to build from their home dir.
Are things like apache, tomcat, mysql, and psql configured differently between distros so much that I wouldn't be able to share? Even if they are different, I should be able to store the data on a partition and point the services to that shared partition, correct?
How would I go about setting this up?
I am thinking of installing Lint, Ubuntu and Fedora (which is my usual distro) but I want to keep all the same user accounts (which I feel is fairly easy, since they are on their own partition) /home constant through all distros (luks). I have an encrypted partition of data for multimedia which seems the simplest since it just needs to be mounted and not really tied to anything except some scripts that the users have in their directories. I also want to use my mysql db on each of the distros which in my head would be the difficult part (along with having all the users aligned properly). There is also a partition for web development /var/lib/www although I could get rid of that and just allow users to build from their home dir.
Are things like apache, tomcat, mysql, and psql configured differently between distros so much that I wouldn't be able to share? Even if they are different, I should be able to store the data on a partition and point the services to that shared partition, correct?
How would I go about setting this up?