Share Home between 2 releases

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 at 22:25, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> 11 November 2021  at 19:37, Liam Proven wrote:
> Re: Share Home between 2 releases (at least in part)
>
> >On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 at 10:29, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
> ><ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> >> When doing this, a user should know what s/he is doing.
>
> <snip>
>
> >o if you need to ask, you shouldn't try to do it,
>
> In "general" I have to disagree, if we don't ask when we don't know we'll never
> progress.

Well, yes, true, OK. But there are experiments that are pretty safe to
try and which won't have disastrous effects if you try them.
(Dual-booting 2 distros; sharing swap; multiple desktop environments.)

But this one sounds like the main failure mode is to loose *all your
data* and that's not a risk I'd encourage anyone to take!

> On this particular matter I should probably have concluded that if I have not
> done it yet (on linux) there was a good reason

I would suggest a first step: move /home into its own partition. Bo
Berglund did this recently and described the process here on the list.

> On windows I have done the equivalent since 1980's and have all my old data on
> the same disk, it's really a "my grandfathers axe" thing (Triggers Broom for
> those who dont read Terry Pratchett)

Same disk or same partition?

(Pratchett was alluding to Theseus' Ship:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus )

> I thought I could do much the same with Linux, for a long while it was not
> worth it, as I moved around from one *nix to another, (Sco Unix, Sun Java,
> Mandrake and on) it was not until Warty that I stayed with the same basic
> system and even then I did fresh install over each till Karmic came along then
> I upped to the LTS (Lucid) and have (for the most part) done LTS to LTS update
> "inplace" ever since

Fair. I did a lot of distro-hopping too, but my main machines have
always run Ubuntu since 2004. I ran SUSE Pro before that, and Corel
before that, and Caldera before Corel, and so on. I was never rich
enough to afford my own SCO machine at home! That was strictly at
work.

> Thanks for your patience

Sorry for my impatience.


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