From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RfjZ7-0005zo-3l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:48:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E238721C0BF; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:48:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 318EB21C117 for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:46:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38493DEC93 for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:46:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id V8RRH9Cp8zPL for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:10:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D64CCDEC85 for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:46:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:46:22 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.0.6-gentoo; KDE/4.7.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4EFA7D25.9050304@wht.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4EFA7D25.9050304@wht.com.au> X-KMail-Markup: true Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary-01=_+Lo+OHV9rj2rx+e" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201112280246.22163.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: dbdff3fa-4059-4923-8b6e-a83f6fc7da90 X-Archives-Hash: e3a509ca5e062af75ee6d95780639609 --Boundary-01=_+Lo+OHV9rj2rx+e Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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//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 --Boundary-01=_+Lo+OHV9rj2rx+e Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

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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