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

Kevin O'Gorman kogorman at gmail.com
Sun Nov 25 21:55:42 UTC 2012


I thought you meant to move it away to another spot.

If you're going to have different distros, you might want to have a
partition with all your actual stuff, and mount it on various small home
directories which are just places for your dotfiles.


On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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