Advice & Suggestions wanted for Shared Partitions

[LiNuts]

I have Drake 8.0 and Libranet 1.9.1 installed as well as Win98SE on a 8.4 Gb drive. I want to use a shared /home partition between my linux distros, i already share the swap partition,

I have 5545Mb's free after Win98SE, I was thinking along the lines of doing the following:

Shared: swap - 125Mb /boot - 25Mb /home - 600Mb. That would leave approx 2397Mb's for each distro, I would like some suggestions on how i should partiton the 2.4Gb for the non-shared partitons. ( I.E. / - /usr - /var).

I think i would have to install Mandrake 1st and then Libranet, as Mandrake does not let you install or initialize previously mounted partitions.(using Diskdrake). Then i would be able to use a common desktop for both distros.
My present setup is this:
Libranet:
Dev Mount point: Size: Used:
hda7 / 246Mb 56Mb'
hda8 boot 25Mb 1.4Mb
hda9 usr 1.0Gb 881Mb
hda10 var 300Mb 62Mb
hda11 home 690Mb 55Mb

Mandrake:
Dev Mount point size Used
hda12 / 1.5Gb 770Mb
hda13 home 1.3Gb 14Mb
hda14 var 245Mb 58Mb
My swap is hda6 and is 246Mb
hda1 Windows is 1.5Gb
hda5 (vfat) (download) 1.4Gb
hdc1 (vfat) 2nd hdd 1,0Gb
I think what i want to do, can be done ( Am i right?.)sorry about the long post :eek: .
Cheers
LiNuts

[LiNuts]

What's this, No advice or suggestions from the LNO'rs. I am FlabberGasted!!! :D
Cheers
LiNuts

[Bokkenka]

Originally posted by LiNuts:
<STRONG>I want to use a shared /home partition between my linux distros....</STRONG>
Be sure you have the same user id number in both distros, else they will be seen as two different users, even if they have the same name.

<STRONG>...I would like some suggestions on how i should partiton the 2.4Gb for the non-shared partitons. ( I.E. / - /usr - /var)....</STRONG>
That depends on how much software you're going to be installing, and what you'll be doing with the different OSes.

Hmmm... I was going to search the boards to see what others were suggesting for partitions, but it's timing-out on me.

If I were to do it, I'd prob'ly go...

Windows system/programs -- 1.5 gigs
Windows docs/files -- 2 gigs
Mandrake -- 2 gigs
-- root -- 0.25 gig
-- usr -- 1.5 gig
-- var -- 0.25 gig
Libra -- 2 gigs
-- same as MDK
Home -- 0.5 gigs
-- store mp3s/pics/what-nots on the second Win partition

That leaves .4 to use as swaps and boot. You can split off a quarter if you want Windows' swap on a separate partition.