Robin Laing wrote:
My solution to this problem is to make a separate /lnxdata partition on which I keep everything except config information which goes in /home. Then I let there be a separate /home within the / partition of each install and just use the /lnxdata to do all data sharing. If you want to share something that is in your old /home in the new one, just mount the old / partition and make a link in your new /home to whatever it is in your old /home. For example, I link to the evolution folder in my FC1 /home to use the same one in my FC2 /home. Then I never need to worry about incompatible configs, and the /lnxdata partition carries on from install to install with all my persistent data.Gerry Tool wrote:
What about issues with ~/ config files if you want to share /home between FC1 and FC2? Will there be problems?Dave wrote:
I am looking at putting FC2 on a partition but use the same /home directories until I have FC2 fully configured. My wife would kill me otherwise. :)
Another benefit is that the baggage from old configs doesn't get in the way of changed configuration file formats in the new install.
Hope this is useful.
Gerry Tool
I see a great benefit in this if wanting to test other distros as well.
I do see a problem if (as in my case) another user creates files and directories in their home directories. But this is an education issue.
I like the idea and I will have to do some moving as I presently have /home as a md0 partition. I try to put all my data into one subdirectory. Of course applications create their own directories by default.
At work we use nfs home directories and I have run into some problems in the past.
Thanks.
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