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

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday 27 November 2012 13:41:16 Randy Barlow wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:01:28 -0500, Michael Orlitzky
>
> <michael@××××××××.com> wrote:
> > You can work around it fairly easily, though. Just mount all of your
> > version-independent stuff separately, under ~/Documents or whatever.
> > Or never go back to Ubuntu =)
>
> This is good advice. Another potential solution is to use symlinks to
> map the OS-dependent files to the right places.
>
> Or you could make /home/username be OS dependent, with another OS
> independent volume mounted somewhere, perhaps /home/os_independent.

My solution is to have a separate partition called 'common' which I 
mount under my user home directory in whichever Linux I'm running at the 
time. Then anything I think I might need anywhere I just put in 
/home/prh/common/...

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Rgds
Peter