Robin Laing wrote:
Gerry Tool wrote:
Robin Laing wrote:
Gerry Tool wrote:
Dave wrote:
What about issues with ~/ config files if you want to share /home
between FC1 and FC2? Will there be problems?
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. :)
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.
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.
I'm glad you found it useful. As you suggested, I do also find it
useful to have the persistent data available in other distros I'm trying
out.
Gerry
