From: Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:46:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201112280246.22163.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EFA7D25.9050304@wht.com.au>
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On Wednesday 28 December 2011 02:21:25 Andrew Lowe wrote:
> Is there anything in my current Gentoo /home and swap that "locks" them to
> the Gentoo install or can I share them between the two installs?
Beware! Whichever your preferred desktop (kde, gnome, whatever), having your
whole home directory shared between distros is a recipe for disaster. You
only need one program to differ in version number between distros to render
the whole lot unusable. Consider, for instance, the current difficulty of
incompatible versions of kmail between 4.4 and 4.7.
My preference is to have a /home/<user>/common partition mounted in each
distro, containing everything I want accessible at all times, but leave
things like .kde4 dedicated to the distro that's running it.
--
Rgds
Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-28 2:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-28 2:21 [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap Andrew Lowe
2011-12-28 2:28 ` Adam Carter
2011-12-28 2:32 ` Andrew Lowe
2011-12-28 2:37 ` Nilesh Govindarajan
2011-12-28 2:49 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-28 5:26 ` Andrew Lowe
2011-12-28 5:40 ` Michael Mol
2011-12-28 9:14 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-12-28 2:44 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-12-28 2:46 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2011-12-28 5:30 ` [gentoo-user] " W.Kenworthy
2011-12-28 5:37 ` Andrew Lowe
2011-12-28 6:01 ` W.Kenworthy
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