Fedora and Arch linux dual boot

[abijithkp]

Hi everyone!!!!!

I would like to install Arch Linux along with Fedora17. Have to install both from scratch. My system has a 750gb hd. I just wanted to know what will be the best way to partition my disk.
Is it OK if I have a common home partition?

Thanks in advance

[zerum]

Originally Posted by abijithkp

Is it OK if I have a common home partition?

Yes, this is ok. But I recommend to use different user names, so that every user has a seperate folder in /home. Than there are no collisions between config files.

And, of course, you must not format the /home partition and make a backup before any action.

[jpollard]

The one thing that may bite you is that security labels on /home will not be maintained between the two systems. This is not a major problem, but sometimes does require /home to have the labels restored (restorecon -R /home should do the trick) before everything works right. The restorecon may take a while if there are lots of files.

[abijithkp]

What I did is that I created separate root and home partition for both the installations and a common data partition. Now the problem is that its a readonly partition for all users except my account.

what can I do to change it. Its in vfat format.....

[DBelton]

You may need to change the format.

vfat really doesn't support permissions or ownership, so it's pretty much whoever mounts it, owns it. Unless you are sharing the partition with a Windows machine, I would recommend using a linux filesystem on the partition.