Common HOME over many versions

[Aart Koelewijn]

On Tue, 11 May 2010 08:14:57 -0400, Tom H wrote:

> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     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 ;-)
> 
> I assume (and hope) that you mean that you will create a partition with
> fdisk and mount it as /data...
> 
> Make sure that the "karl" user has the same uid and gid on the systems
> on your box and check the man pages for the correct mount options and
> mount-point owner and mode.

I would mount it as /home/karl/data

But that is just a personal opinion

Aart