Sharing partitons

[Michael R Head]

On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 17:37 +0100, Carsten wrote:
> A1ex schrieb:
> Sharing /home seems to me the only useful partition to share. That's not 
> a big problem except that you have to care about the user IDs: If user 
> foo has UID 500 on one distribution but 1000 on another one he can't 
> fully access his own home directory. If all users have the same ID on 
> both systems, sharing /home is no problem.

Also, if you are running different versions of the same software, they
might get confused by their dot files (particularly older versions
seeing newer versions' updates).

/usr/local can also be a nice path to share, particularly if you put
larger programs in there.

> Carsten
> 
> 
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