2 different distros using same /home with same user

[Ric Moore]

On 08/04/2012 03:37 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> 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?
>
> You could have a normal home directory in the root Ubuntu partition
> and then mount the original home partition at a mount point somewhere.
Not good, when you consider that their config files could be in conflict.

I mount /opt as a separate partition. Then I link Desktop, Video, Music, 
Documents, Pictures, etc to /opt/ric/ where they reside.
The trick would be to keep personal files, not system specific files, on 
the other directory. Then, when it's dist-upgrade time, you get your new 
dot-config files upgraded and not lose your personal files. Just umount 
/opt before the dist-upgrade. I've been doing that for years.

If you have a secondary hard drive it's even better, mounting that as 
/opt ...as in a failure you can reformat the / drive completely, and not 
lose your personal stuff. Just don't format the /opt partition/drive! Ric


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