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Hemmann, Volker Armin schreef: |
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> On Sunday 19 March 2006 13:04, Sumeet Pal Singh wrote: |
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>> HI This mail is not directly related to gentoo. I have |
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>> gentoo,ubuntu 5.10 on my system and using FC3 since it was |
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>> released. |
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>> I tried to install FC4 on my system by sharing the swap and /home |
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>> partition between FC4 and ubuntu. The installation went well. I did |
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>> not install KDE in FC4. |
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<snip> |
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>> I booted in as root and created a new user with UID and GID same as |
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>> on ubuntu. Now I booted in GNOME and it was completely |
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>> configured!!!! Moreover gaim started and signed me in to all my |
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>> accounts!!! This was first time login... |
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>> My question is that can sharing /home okay for a long run or will |
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>> it lead to problems. |
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<snip> |
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> as long as you are using the same software versions on both systems |
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> (at least the major version number should be the same) it should be |
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> ok. |
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That's what I would have thought, too. But frankly, it seems too much |
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maintenance to me, since as soon as the versions go out of sync, then |
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you're likely to have problems that are difficult to track down. |
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I have no problem with two users from different distros having their |
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/home folder on the same partition (in fact, my Gentoo install and my |
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SuSE install share a /home partition), but I wouldn't myself have the |
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two users merged that way across two Linux distros. I admit I did do |
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something similar when I had a massive multiboot (5 Linux distros, 2 |
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Windows installs), for relatively easy compatibility with the shared |
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Windows partitions, but even then, every user had their own /home |
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folder, they just had the same UID and a shared GID (which I made the |
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same on all related distros). But then again, I don't store things "in" |
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my /home folder; I store them on their own partitions that are linked |
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into my home folder, so it's not as if it's a "space saver" for me to |
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have two separate distros using the same /home/username, and since I see |
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it as a relatively dangerous pain-in-the-butt, I don't do it. |
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/usr and the like is right out, obviously-- your libs will get creamed |
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pretty quick doing something like that, unless they're /exactly/ the |
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same across both distros, and that seems unlikely to me (or unlikely to |
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last long, if you're lucky temporarily). |
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> But why are you asking here and not at the ubuntu or fc mailing |
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> lists? |
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Good question. |
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Holly |
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