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On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au> wrote: |
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> On 28/12/2011 10:49 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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>> On Dec 28, 2011 9:40 AM, "Nilesh Govindarajan" <contact@××××××××.com |
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>> <mailto:contact@××××××××.com>> wrote: |
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>> > On Dec 28, 2011 7:52 AM, "Andrew Lowe" <agl@×××××××.au |
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>> <mailto:agl@×××××××.au>> wrote: |
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>> True. |
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>> My suggestion would be to not share your ~ directly, but instead share |
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>> something *under* ~ |
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>> E.g. : |
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>> mkdir ~/sharedstuff |
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>> mount /dev/sdxx ~/sharedstuff |
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>> Another alternative would be to ensure that you are not using the same |
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>> username in both OS, and just do a bindmount. |
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>> Rgds, |
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> People, |
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> Thanks for the replies, I forgot about the config stuff sitting there |
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> in the home dir. I think the way around this for me is Pandu's suggestion of |
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> a different user name for each linux and using bind mount. |
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There's a big one nobody mentioned: Different versions of different |
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apps. In flipping a /home back and forth between different Linux |
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distributions running different versions of (mostly) the same |
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software, I've had apps crash. *Usually*, this happens when dotfiles |
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were created by newer versions of a program, and then read by an older |
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version, but I've seen it break going the other way, too. |
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The other (relatively mild) bit are UID/GID mappings for permissions. |
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As long as your login users and related groups in /etc/passwd and |
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/etc/group have the same UIDs and GIDs in both OSs, you should be just |
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fine. I got bit when I flipped back and forth between Fedora and |
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Ubuntu; Fedora started things at UID 500, Ubuntu started things at UID |
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1000. Files that had been created by my user account on one system |
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couldn't be read by my user account on the other without chowning |
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them. |
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