On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:34:55 +0530, Sumeet Pal Singh wrote: > My question is that can sharing /home okay for a long run or will it > lead to problems.
Sharing the /home partition is fine, sharing a home directory between distros will cause trouble. Even if you fix the permissions problems, by giving the user the same UID on all distros, you'll have trouble when you have different versions of the same software and the configuration files get screwed. The solution I have used is to have a separate home directory for each distro, but keeping the same user name and ID. I named them nelz-gentoo, nelz-mandrake etc, to make it easy to keep track. For data you want to share between the distros, I used symlinks like "ln -s ../nelz-gentoo/documents nlez-mandrake/documents". Share things like you KDE/GNOME config files and it WILL bite you at some time. -- Neil Bothwick Where the system is concerned, you're not allowed to ask `Why?'
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