I was actually going to recommend having a separate set of partitions, and then sharing non-system partitions. The problem will become keeping them synced.
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:35 PM, shawn wilson <ag4ve...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Aug 3, 2011 11:22 AM, "Sthu Deus" <sthu.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > As it is VERY hard to low versions of the installed packages, how do > > You return Your system to some exact state after You have tried new > > versions of pckages? > > > > Me? I use virtualbox (or other vm) and snapshots. If you want something > closer to metal, lvm has similar. > > > What I would do is to copy whole the system, then delete the current > > and copy it back in archive mode of cp, reinstall/update grub as > > necessary... > > > > This works fine. Though, I'd just dd. >
