Spam:****, Re: universal home partition??

[Lindsay Mathieson]

On Sun, 5 Sep 2010 07:03:35 pm Goh Lip wrote:
> I only have one partition for each OS, no separate /home, /var, /boot, 
> etc. (I sometimes wonder why set separately and then use LVM to optimize 
> disk usage across sub-partitions). I do have a separate very big Data 
> partition to hold only data and can be used by any OS.


I do something very similar to this as I usually have several test systems 
installed on different partitions.

I agree that sharing a $HOME dir between different boots is a recipie for 
grief, however I do store some universal data - bookmarks, address books, 
kwallet in a Dropbox folder and this works very well. Dual purpose - they get 
backed up automatically and shared between different distros. I have a script 
setup that I run fro new install's to restore m config from Dropbox.


#!/bin/sh
# Remove existing
rm -f ~/.kde/share/apps/kwallet/kdewallet.kwl
rm -f ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml
rm -f ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml.tbcache
rm -f ~/.kde/share/apps/akregator/data/feeds.opml

# Create Links
ln -s `pwd`/kdewallet.kwl ~/.kde/share/apps/kwallet/kdewallet.kwl
ln -s `pwd`/bookmarks.xml ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml
ln -s `pwd`/pim/feeds.opml ~/.kde/share/apps/akregator/data/feeds.opml


Its best to run it with X shutdown.
-- 
Lindsay
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