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From: Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:28:14
Message-Id: 4EFAA891.1000103@wht.com.au
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap by Pandu Poluan
1 On 28/12/2011 10:49 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
2 >
3 > On Dec 28, 2011 9:40 AM, "Nilesh Govindarajan" <contact@××××××××.com
4 > <mailto:contact@××××××××.com>> wrote:
5 > >
6 > >
7 > > On Dec 28, 2011 7:52 AM, "Andrew Lowe" <agl@×××××××.au
8 > <mailto:agl@×××××××.au>> wrote:
9 > > >
10 [snip]
11 ...
12 ...
13 ...
14 [snip]
15 >
16 > True.
17 >
18 > My suggestion would be to not share your ~ directly, but instead share
19 > something *under* ~
20 >
21 > E.g. :
22 >
23 > mkdir ~/sharedstuff
24 > mount /dev/sdxx ~/sharedstuff
25 >
26 > Another alternative would be to ensure that you are not using the same
27 > username in both OS, and just do a bindmount.
28 >
29 > Rgds,
30 >
31
32
33 People,
34 Thanks for the replies, I forgot about the config stuff sitting there
35 in the home dir. I think the way around this for me is Pandu's
36 suggestion of a different user name for each linux and using bind mount.
37
38 Thanks for the info,
39 Andrew

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>