Re: 32 or 64

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

On 21/12/16 11:33 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Ray Andrews wrote on Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 11:15:20 -0800:
>
> Don't share the /bin directory between OS installs.  Doing so is liable
> to leave one of the two OSes unbootable at some point.

That's just for my personal binaries, not the system /bins.  I suppose 
the expected thing would be to have that stuff in /usr/local/bin but I 
like to keep all my personally made stuff in one partition separate from 
stuff made by the OS or by installing things officially, that way I just 
mount my partition on to the FS of any OS and I've got all my stuff 
exactly perfect right away and I basically never touch  anything else 
except sometimes you hafta tinker with a few files in /etc. The only 
hitch has ever been the jump to 64 bit, which gives me a different set 
of my binaries and a different zsh.  Maybe I haven't figured out the 
best protocol for that.
>
> For future reference, there's `uname -m`.

That's best, because it won't change with any 64 bit kernel, I think.
>
> But again: I would recommend just giving each OS its own partition.
> That's a lot less likely to break.

Yup, I'm quite a partitioner, there's just the shared stuff to to with 
zsh and my few personal binaries.  Nice to unpack everything from one 
suitcase and be right at home.