From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25118 invoked by alias); 21 Dec 2016 20:24:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 22246 Received: (qmail 26510 invoked from network); 21 Dec 2016 20:24:28 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Diagnostics: from mta03.eastlink.ca by f.primenet.com.au (envelope-from , uid 7791) with qmail-scanner-2.11 (clamdscan: 0.99.2/21882. spamassassin: 3.4.1. Clear:RC:0(24.224.136.9):SA:0(-3.8/5.0):. Processed in 0.940164 secs); 21 Dec 2016 20:24:28 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Envelope-From: rayandrews@eastlink.ca X-Qmail-Scanner-Mime-Attachments: | X-Qmail-Scanner-Zip-Files: | Received-SPF: pass (ns1.primenet.com.au: SPF record at _spf.eastlink.ca designates 24.224.136.9 as permitted sender) X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=ZvqvEJzG c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=28Ntk8jg+Dho8ABWn/CRtA==:117 a=28Ntk8jg+Dho8ABWn/CRtA==:17 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=g37nhktmKovvDTc45UcA:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 X-EL-IP-NOAUTH: 24.207.16.108 Subject: Re: 32 or 64 To: zsh-users@zsh.org References: <20161221193321.GA24231@fujitsu.shahaf.local2> From: Ray Andrews Message-id: Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 12:24:20 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/45.4.0 MIME-version: 1.0 In-reply-to: <20161221193321.GA24231@fujitsu.shahaf.local2> Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit 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.