Re: /home when moving to Fedora from Ubuntu

2015-05-20 Thread g
On 05/16/2015 02:54 PM, Ronal B Morse wrote: On 05/16/2015 12:41 PM, g wrote: On 05/16/2015 08:41 AM, Kalpa Welivitigoda wrote: Hi Danishka and bitlord, Thanks a lot for the fast responses. It's exactly what bitlord has explained. It seems that it is just a matter of labelling/display in

Re: /home when moving to Fedora from Ubuntu

2015-05-18 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 16 May 2015 13:54:22 -0600, Ronal B Morse wrote: However, and it may have been just an old wives' chicken superstition, that one should not share the same /home between different distributions, or use a /home populated by one distribution as /home for another. The reason given to

Re: /home when moving to Fedora from Ubuntu

2015-05-17 Thread Kalpa Welivitigoda
Hi all, Thanks a lot for the support rendered. I could use the same ubuntu /home for fedora by just marking the mount point as /home in anaconda. Further I made the same user (kalpa) in the installation and it took some considerable amount of time in user creation part of the installation. May

Re: /home when moving to Fedora from Ubuntu

2015-05-16 Thread Ronal B Morse
On 05/16/2015 12:41 PM, g wrote: On 05/16/2015 08:41 AM, Kalpa Welivitigoda wrote: Hi Danishka and bitlord, Thanks a lot for the fast responses. It's exactly what bitlord has explained. It seems that it is just a matter of labelling/display in anaconda. So I think it is safe to proceed

Re: /home when moving to Fedora from Ubuntu

2015-05-16 Thread Kalpa Welivitigoda
Hi Danishka and bitlord, Thanks a lot for the fast responses. It's exactly what bitlord has explained. It seems that it is just a matter of labelling/display in anaconda. So I think it is safe to proceed with mounting the ubuntu /home as the home for fedora. On May 16, 2015 6:27 PM, bitlord

Re: /home when moving to Fedora from Ubuntu

2015-05-16 Thread g
On 05/16/2015 08:41 AM, Kalpa Welivitigoda wrote: Hi Danishka and bitlord, Thanks a lot for the fast responses. It's exactly what bitlord has explained. It seems that it is just a matter of labelling/display in anaconda. So I think it is safe to proceed with mounting the ubuntu /home as

/home when moving to Fedora from Ubuntu

2015-05-16 Thread Kalpa Welivitigoda
Hi, I am using Ubuntu 13.10 and I am about to move to Fedora 21. I have a separate partition for /home in ubuntu. When I try to install Fedora, in disk partitioning (I chose manual option), for / I chose the same / in ubuntu and mark it as format. Then I selected the /home partition of ubuntu

Re: /home when moving to Fedora from Ubuntu

2015-05-16 Thread Danishka Navin
On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Kalpa Welivitigoda callka...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am using Ubuntu 13.10 and I am about to move to Fedora 21. I have a separate partition for /home in ubuntu. When I try to install Fedora, in disk partitioning (I chose manual option), for / I chose the

Re: /home when moving to Fedora from Ubuntu

2015-05-16 Thread bitlord
On Sat, 16 May 2015 17:46:39 +0530 Kalpa Welivitigoda callka...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am using Ubuntu 13.10 and I am about to move to Fedora 21. I have a separate partition for /home in ubuntu. When I try to install Fedora, in disk partitioning (I chose manual option), for / I chose the