Re: [gentoo-user] Share /home with Gentoo and Ubuntu

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

Am Dienstag, 27. November 2012, 12:34:29 schrieb Randy Westlund:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a new gentoo user (coming from ubuntu).  I've been proving to
> myself that I can do everything I need with gentoo on a secondary
> laptop, and after a few weeks, I think I've got it (svn repos, AVR
> cross compiler, multiple screens, etc).  I much prefer gentoo to
> ubuntu, and would like to put it on my primary laptop.  But I think I
> should leave an ubuntu installation on there just in case.  I'd like
> to have gentoo, ubunu, and win7 alongside each other.
>
> How feasible would it be to have gentoo and ubuntu share a /home
> partition?  I've never had a reason to have multiple linux
> installations on a single machine before, but I can't think of a
> reason why this wouldn't work.  .bashrc might need a few more lines of
> code. .screenrc and .exrc would be fine.  My ssh keys can  be shared.
> What would happen to .mozilla if ubuntu and gentoo are running
> different versions of firefox?  What other issues might I run into?
>
> Alternatively, is there a way to keep gentoo's and ubuntu's hidden
> files separate and link or map them to ~ at boot?
>
> Randy

okay.. have that done myself in the past.... first make sure that the user id 
is the same in Ubuntu and gentoo. You might run into trouble with firefox, 
chrome, gnome, kde because of different versions - might not will. But you will 
see some errors because of it at some point.  Make a backup and try it.

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