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 8936D1381F3 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:36:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 155AE21C06B; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:35:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-f181.google.com (mail-ie0-f181.google.com [209.85.223.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0C76E21C020 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:34:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f181.google.com with SMTP id 16so5594605iea.40 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:34:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=YIML++lCRM1glB/dLslRP7Q5FyFcAHgBTVmI4mrLZc8=; b=bSpeSpgTuA0yoAxpk9JkrxFQG/wZiTOeq3xz2DTHWe0lnoLPKka86WYEhYcUhexnub ao4NF166Y4wQUE78RtD/CXjGvuiPbVORr6pOIvxf/KNFgmEZruVFmOpI0XGfcomsRL2M A3Wb7RobZ3YnLhg8XaZLwt+dTajty8OfxYFax0cYo0Vg0MfLTe3ynXeCIkJIsrP3yIT8 PjtX76di6fBumRyZ9sVGC/oOSYzMgctQpr6kOw9q8mjz2d6zodJuLIShfQTmFg3n+qUQ ZIWemfWMKFpzjaDZ7u2wzt49Jgzot1x7XDOuAx3u99BCZlhal6yOgg+fdBwrEE0rRwwa 96kA== 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 10.50.153.137 with SMTP id vg9mr19220596igb.40.1354037669254; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:34:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.98.226 with HTTP; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:34:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:34:29 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: [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: 04fb6ad1-19c0-47a3-8d2c-a3c416e6de0d X-Archives-Hash: c53e458bf13dca92fcd5845bd67c5d03 Hi, I'm a new gentoo user (coming from ubuntu). 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, ubunu, and win7 alongside each other. How feasible would it be to have gentoo and ubuntu share a /home partition? I've never had a reason to have multiple linux installations on a single machine before, but I can't think of a reason why this wouldn't work. .bashrc might need a few more lines of code. .screenrc and .exrc would be fine. My ssh keys can be shared. What would happen to .mozilla if ubuntu and gentoo are running different versions of firefox? What other issues might I run into? Alternatively, is there a way to keep gentoo's and ubuntu's hidden files separate and link or map them to ~ at boot? Randy