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On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:34:55 +0530, Sumeet Pal Singh wrote: |
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> My question is that can sharing /home okay for a long run or will it |
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> lead to problems. |
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Sharing the /home partition is fine, sharing a home directory between |
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distros will cause trouble. Even if you fix the permissions problems, by |
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giving the user the same UID on all distros, you'll have trouble when you |
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have different versions of the same software and the configuration files |
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get screwed. |
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The solution I have used is to have a separate home directory for each |
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distro, but keeping the same user name and ID. I named them nelz-gentoo, |
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nelz-mandrake etc, to make it easy to keep track. For data you want to |
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share between the distros, I used symlinks like |
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"ln -s ../nelz-gentoo/documents nlez-mandrake/documents". |
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Share things like you KDE/GNOME config files and it WILL bite you at some |
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time. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Where the system is concerned, you're not allowed to ask `Why?' |
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