Filesystem corruption

[Volker Wysk]

Zitat von Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com>:

> hi,
> Am Dienstag, den 16.07.2019, 17:21 +0200 schrieb Volker Wysk:
>> Zitat von Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:
>> >
>> > On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 at 20:56, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> > > Thanks for your explaination. It means that I will probably stick
>> > > with
>> > > LTS versions.
>> > You're welcome. LTS releases do make for a quieter life. :-)
>> >
>> > You can always dual-boot the current release as a standby and if
>> > you
>> > want to experiment.
>> What exactly does "dual-boot" mean? Having two different systems,
>> with  
>> /home on a separate partition, with it being mounted by either,
>> when  
>> running?
>>
>
> simply booting two different OSes (or two different versions of the
> same OS) while picking between them on boot
>
> *NEVER EVER* !!! share your home between two OSes or different releases
> ... the way an application stores data, passwords or configs might be
> completely different between the two versions on the different
> releases/OSes, formats might have changed etc. this will likely cause
> corruption and/or application breakage.

Okay. Good thing you pointed it out.

V.W.