Common HOME over many versions

[Karl Larsen]

On 05/10/2010 11:29 PM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>    
>>       I, by myself decided to have a partition loaded by /etc/fstab
>> that is my huge collection of things picked up over years. What I
>> forgot was that with each new version I wrote a new "thunderbird"
>> information for the latest version at /home/karl/.thunderbird. It
>> would overwrite what was there for it's thunderbird.
>>
>>       Since 10.04 is the newest version using the common /home/karl it
>> put it's .thunderbird there and this Thunderbird works fine, but all
>> other versions are "broke" . This is really bad since some of my
>> hardware things do not work on 10.04 but work fine on the 9.10
>> version. But I can't be there because the Thunderbird does not work
>> on 9.10.
>>      
> Upgrade your 9.10 thunderbird to the version from 10.04 - possibly by
> installing the version from a PPA or directly from the Mozilla site
> instead of the one provided by Ubuntu 9.10. That should make it work on
> the older distribution again.
>
> Then rethink your use of a common /home for various distributions. As
> you just found out the hard way, the configuration files of some (many)
> applications are not backward compatible and therefore it can break the
> older distribution. I would suggest to use a common /data partition for
> the various distributions and keep separate /home directories for each
> distribution. Then you don't break the config of an older distribution
> if an application changes the config file syntax. It is definitely more
> work but may be worth the extra effort.
>
>
> Nils
>
>    
     Yes been thinking and that may be the solution. I see no real 
problem using fdisk to mount a partition to /data. Then the HOME would 
stay with each version. I will DO things and discover why you don't want 
to do THAT ;-)

73 Karl


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