<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Onkar Shinde <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:onkarshinde@gmail.com">onkarshinde@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Moz <<a href="mailto:listmoz@gmail.com">listmoz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> > Hi Mallikarjun<br> ><br> >>(1) can i share single /home between ubuntu and fedora<br> >>(2) if so will the configuration files stay intact and consistant?<br> ><br> > Here's what I suggest. You already have Ubuntu installed I believe.<br> > Backup your /home on an external drive (pen drive or external HDD).<br> > Make enough space on your internal HDD and then install Fedora,<br> > allowing it to format your /home if it wants to. At the end, boot<br> > Fedora once and then copy your backup of /home from the external<br> > drive back to your internal HDD. Perhaps that will delete some config<br> > files but this might work.<br> <br> </div>On the contrary he should keep the existing data on /home partition<br> and use it as it is. That way there is at least some chance that it<br> will work.<br> Also the first user created in Fedora will need same user name as in<br> Ubuntu. Otherwise it will simply use different home directory<br> (/home/<username>).<br> <font color="#888888"><br> <br> Onkar<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I used dd command to copy the entire partition <br><br>Best Regards<br>mallikarjun<br>  <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br> --<br> ubuntu-in mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>