Sharing Bookmarks etc between 2 OS's

[Jeremy Teale]

On Sunday 10 June 2007 20:18:53 Ed Smits wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, no, I should have read more carefully. As Harry said, Foxmarks would 
work well for bookmarks.

> 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.

I think that an additional shared partition that can be mounted to, 
say, /home/user/vmware, would be the way to go for that amount of data.

Assuming that the UIDs match up on both OSs, I don't see why only one user 
wouldn't be able to write to the shared directory on either OS. It would more 
secure than making it R/W by everyone.

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




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