From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA61F1381F3 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:53:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E4B7921C055; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:52:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ia0-f181.google.com (mail-ia0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BC883E068C for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:51:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ia0-f181.google.com with SMTP id h8so9842956iaa.40 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 05:51:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=qI4yidwwR73pJYorf8Ej6cit49hKPDJvoo8CQ+nqXnE=; b=kwxlexspWK8m/thWtC7CCZ8BAWf9KBY7vwNV8cHXZmroW7epxsWXVMZFoXiCf9Z2Yu /3W4F54sT4f8WYCrJuW+VS5b/m9OLIpFlL9ccU9iVnyBrZliE0e44LPmgLSjzi8Ig9C5 IZVZ168CJohLGlkGgyOXokSAoTH9Xg0TlYQRazN0PWQEum4gz7ubR4+40IpUkOE262zn mLQjejHxZcfDDuCNt8Z9GbYyqJMlp1R4yYPVJHjZbWHoPCBdsPBmrC3e6D+lHJDKQ8Vg pwCPAcWO0P3+aGp/quZuWP9zZ0QvA51uIvsWZ3TxpG+/A4Zxdh649GMIHhKA+sd3nCoT xxYw== 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 Received: by 10.50.178.10 with SMTP id cu10mr18874242igc.17.1354110710000; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 05:51:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.98.226 with HTTP; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 05:51:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20121127210812.GH1065@ca.inter.net> References: <20121127210812.GH1065@ca.inter.net> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:51:49 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Share /home with Gentoo and Ubuntu From: Randy Westlund To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: c78c2e12-5d3c-4742-97ee-0f9d77a8fcc6 X-Archives-Hash: 4ad7b78d43623ecf4833ac3f4f7612b9 On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > 121127 Randy Westlund wrote: >> I'm a new gentoo user coming from Ubuntu. > > Welcome ! > >> I've been proving to myself that I can do everything I need with Gentoo >> on a secondary laptop, and after a few weeks, I think I've got it: >> svn repos, AVR cross compiler, multiple screens, etc. I much prefer >> Gentoo to Ubuntu and would like to put it on my primary laptop, >> but I think I should leave an Ubuntu installation on there just in case. >> I'd like to have Gentoo, Ubuntu and Win7 alongside each other. >> How feasible would it be to have Gentoo and Ubuntu share a /home partition? > > It's likely to cause problems after a short time, > as the 2 OS's will vary in the way they handle config files > & pkgs wb updated at different times & to different versions. > > Try having separate homes, but symlink most of your subdirs in Ubuntu > -- since you are likely to stop using it soon -- to those in Gentoo. > The subdirs to symlink wb those which contain your personal stuff > -- documents, pictures, whatever -- , which won't vary with OS. > > -- > ========================,,============================================ > SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb > ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto > TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca > > Thanks for all the advice. I think I'm going to have separate /home directories and symlink the important things. Given that I don't intend to use ubuntu very much, it makes the most sense. But at some point, I want to try this on a spare machine, just to see what happens. Perhaps if I run xfce on gentoo and kde on ubuntu, there would be fewer collisions.