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From: Randy Barlow <randy@×××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Share /home with Gentoo and Ubuntu
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:42:58
Message-Id: op.wof3i2epl75iaa@dhcp129-218.rdu.redhat.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Share /home with Gentoo and Ubuntu by Michael Orlitzky
1 On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:01:28 -0500, Michael Orlitzky
2 <michael@××××××××.com> wrote:
3 > You can work around it fairly easily, though. Just mount all of your
4 > version-independent stuff separately, under ~/Documents or whatever. Or
5 > never go back to Ubuntu =)
6
7 This is good advice. Another potential solution is to use symlinks to map
8 the OS-dependent files to the right places.
9
10 Or you could make /home/username be OS dependent, with another OS
11 independent volume mounted somewhere, perhaps /home/os_independent. Then
12 you could make symlinks inside /home/username/Music to
13 /home/os_independent/Music and what not. This might be a pain, but it
14 would bypass that problem.
15
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17 R

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Re: [gentoo-user] Share /home with Gentoo and Ubuntu Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>