[Gllug] Trips or traps? A single home partition shared between

[Chris Bell]

On Wed 30 Apr, M.Blackmore wrote:
> What gotchas can getcha if one has a single home partition and a couple
> of different distributions (used for different things - don't ask) on
> different partitions?
> 
> Not quite what I'd chose but if thats what she and daughter wants I'll
> try and accomodate...
> 
> But surely there must be some gotcha in having home shared between two
> distributions (even though both ubuntu based)...
> 
> My instinct would be to make up another computer from the bits box - got
> enough for one more 1.4ghz machine which I've just got booted up OK on
> the workbench, out of a case, and got cases galore to chose from and a
> modest disk spare and a dvd burner spare - and use of a kvm I've got
> doing
> nowt. 
> 
> But complaints that footwell space is already very tight are quite valid
> so this doubling up would not be popular.
> 
> So back to gotchas on a single shared /home partition - are there any?
> 
   You could leave /home/username in / but add a link to a separate shared
partition that holds all except the specific personal configuration details
for each installation.



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