Sharing Bookmarks etc between 2 OS's

[Ed Smits]

Thanks for the input Jeremy, but maybe I didn't state my scenario
properly - this is on a laptop, so no remote NFS share would work when
off the network, and I will only be running one OS at a time, either
Feisty (usually), occasionally FC7.

Mozilla isn't a big deal, I could always copy the .mozilla directory
across on a regular basis and set the appropriate
permissions/ownership, it is less than 50 MB in size, NBD, however
there is also the matter of the 16+ GB VMWare images, I don't mind
having 50 MB duplicated, but not loose 16GB as a duplicate copy. I
know that VMWAre allows you to store your images in a different
location, so that may be the solution for that - create a VMWare
directory in the shared /home partition, move the images there, but
can I set it up so that anyone can read/write to it, ie from either
OS? That doesn't seem to be a very secure solution, however since no
one else has console access to the laptop it shouldn't be a problem.

However - isn't there a better, more aesthetic/elegant solution to
what I want to do?


ED

On 6/10/07, Jeremy Teale <lists at hypnogogic.org> wrote:
> You could setup your home directory on an NFS share. But, that would prevent
> you from using, say, Firefox, on both machines at the same time. Firefox
> would set a lock file that would prevent the other machine from being able to
> start up Firefox. There may also be version inconsistencies that would cause
> strange things to happen within your configuration directories in your home
> folder. I would not advise using one home folder across multiple OSs that run
> different versions of the same application or that run them at the same time.
>
> Another possibility would be to sync the directories on a nightly basis with
> something like rsync.
>
> Lastly, something like Conduit may be of interest to you.
> http://www.conduit-project.org/