2 different distros using same /home with same user

[Basil Chupin]

On 05/08/12 18:32, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 08/05/2012 12:12 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>> On 05/08/12 13:18, Ric Moore wrote:
>>> On 08/04/2012 11:01 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes, I know that. What I wanted to know is what does the symlink look
>>>> like and where is it placed - eg, simply in the "emtpy" newly created
>>>> Documents directory as a link "@......." pointing to the
>>>> opt/ric/Documents directory on the other drive or what? :-)
>>>
>>> Oh heck that response was backgrounded, just lurking unsent. I just
>>> hit send on it. Ric
>>
>> OK, I just read your post to Hazan re this :-) .
>>
>> But I have 2 other blinding questions :-) :
>>
>> why did you pick on the directory /opt? any specific reason or any
>> directory name would do? For example, I mount my 2nd HDD in fstab as
>> /data so I could use /data/Documents, eg, in the symlnk?; and
>>
>> /opt is totally owned and controlled by root.root. What magic do you
>> perform to be able to read/write/execute your user files? (or am I
>> missing something here?)
>
> I just chowned those directories ric:ric ---my username.

OK, now it makes sense to me and the OP :-) .

> Since /opt is just sitting there and as I wrote, it's where Caldera 
> put the licensed and proprietary stuff, and served the same purpose as 
> /usr/local, it's what I use. It's cleanly out of the way of /usr 
> ...which sometimes gets mounted to it's own partition or drive. Plus, 
> it has �clat. It's where stuff can be put that has no other rightful 
> home. :) Ric

What is "�clat"? I am using UTF-8 char set but also tried the old 
Western(ISO-8859-1) but it still shows up with that unknown char.

BC

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