No volumes in Linux?

[Alex Tweedly]

Bob Warren wrote:

>Since you obviously have much more experience than I regarding this subject,
>you might be able to give me a tip or two. For example, let's suppose I have
>2 HDs on my computer, and for the sake of argument I have separate distros
>of Linux installed on each of them with a dual boot on my PC. And say I am
>running RR under the Linux on my first HD. How should I (or indeed can I)
>access data on the 2nd HD?
>
>
>If you could clear the fog a little, I'd be grateful. Thanks.
>
My experience is with Unix, not Linux. And it's mostly 15 or more years 
old :-), and hence somewhat unreliable.

I'd think you should be able to get access to it, though probably not in 
the default config. I do remember reading that most recent Linuxes would 
support access to the MS-Win partition on a dual-boot (Win+Linux) 
machine - either an installation option, or possible to mount the Win 
partition later (so they should certainly be able to access other Linux 
partitions). You may need to manually add them to fstab

I did a quick search&browse on dual-booting Linux, and found this useful 
snippet (note - he's specifically talking about dual-boot or multi-boot 
Linuxes)

> Any Linux system, can mount any Linux partitions in the system not 
> already included in /etc/fstab, so there is no need for a shared /tmp 
> to share data. A shared and automatically mounted /tmp might be easier 
> to remember than which system is on which device. A large shared /tmp 
> may be very useful for doing full system backups of single partition 
> systems as they go over much over 50% full.

which suggests that you ought to be able to mount the "other" linux's 
partitions.
This is from http://geodsoft.com/howto/dualboot/

You should also experiment with "df" command to see if that allows you 
to deduce knowledge of the partitions ...

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