2 different distros using same /home with same user

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Sat Aug 4 19:34:34 UTC 2012


On 4 August 2012 20:31, Hazan Pérez <hapk02 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I have a laptop with Fedora installed in it, but I want to install Ubuntu on
> a new partition. I have a "regular" partition schema in that pc (one for /,
> another one for /home and the swap). I want to install Ubuntu on a new
> partition but I need to have access to my user's data in /home. I could
> simply use my user, with the same password, but I know for a fact that this
> would break my user's desktop config on BOTH distros... How can I do this,
> read/write access of my user's data, without f@#&!$) up my desktop config?

I've done this. So long as they use totally different desktops, you're fine.

E.g. GNOME 3 + Unity = bad, but KDE + GNOME = no worries.

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