Multiple Distros - One /home

[Brian McKee]

you can assign the uid when you create a user

On 11/7/09, Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln at mnsi.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 16:23 -0500, Brian McKee wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Cristopher Thomas <crisnoh at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > How much trouble would I be making for myself if I attempted to have a
>> > shared /home partition for a dual boot of two separate distros?  Is this
>> > even possible?
>>
>> It's possible, but the differences in the settings files between
>> different versions of gnome for example could quickly cause issues or
>> at least confusion.
>>
>> What I'd do if I wanted something like that is make a partition for
>> the standard folders inside of home
>> e.g. put Documents, Desktop, Pictures etc on a separate partiton, and
>> symlink them into the home folder of each distro.
>
>   This makes sense, but... what about conflicting UID's?
>
>> The settings I'd be worried about sharing are all in ~/.something
>> files or folders and that way would still be unique per distro.
>
>   Agreed.
>
>
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