How best to set up a separate /home partition, and pros/cons

[Kevin O'Gorman]

Oops.  If you really meant to use the same home for different distros,
please heed the advice of others.  Don't do that.


On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 25 November 2012 19:20, John D. Herron <paradox.herron at bluewin.ch>
> wrote:
> > Hi, all.
> >
> > Currently running Ubuntu Natty pre-installed on a stand-alone machine
> > (Dual-core AMD Athlon 255, 4 GB RAM, 1TB HDD).
> >
> > Since I have a lot of unused disk space I'd like to add and try out some
> > other distros (Linux Mint 13, Zorin OS, ...).
> >
> > In order to keep things 'streamlined' (i.e. to avoid unnecessary
> > duplications) I'm looking into setting up a separate /home partition to
> > serve the future distros as well.
> >
> > Is this a reasonable idea? If so, how should I best go about it?
>
> I think it is not a good idea to try and share a home folder between
> different versions of ubuntu never mind between different distros.
> You will have different versions of applications on the two systems
> trying to use the same configuration and data files.  Moving from a
> earlier version to a later should not be a problem, but if you try to
> go back to the earlier one you may well have problems.  Trying to do
> the same with different distributions may be even worse as they may
> have conflicting requirements in files in the home directory.
>
> Colin
>
> >
> > By the way: i'm aware that Natty is no longer supported and intend to
> > upgrade to (or new-install) the latest LTS version.
> >
> > Thanks for your help and/or comments.
> > john
> >
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Kevin O'Gorman

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