Share some ./home dirs between version
Grizzly
Real_Grizz_Adams at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Sep 20 10:20:04 UTC 2023
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 at 14:31, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
Re: Share some ./home dirs between (at least in part)
>On Tue, 2023-09-19 at 13:01 +0100, Grizzly via ubuntu-users wrote:
>> I have on duel boot (22.04, 23.10 & Win7) I would like to share some
>> directories from /home on 22.04 with 23.10, it seems a wast of storage space to
>> have
>> /mystuff/apps
>> /pictures
>> /Scripts
>> /web
>> and maybe .wine
>> [snip]
>> Can it be done? I know it is possible (but maybe not advisable?) to share a
>> /Home between them as a whole
>Hi,
>yes, you can share
>/yourstuff/Pictures_and_similar
<snip>
>You can either bind mount shared directories or simply use symbolic
>links. I recommend to use symbolic links and in the future a separated
>partition for shared stuff.
I fired up 23.10, renamed my Pictures dir (to falbackPictures), then
$ln -s path_to_22.04_home_Pictures Pictures
$ls Pictures
all looked as it should,
went to Settings to check that I could also see contents of Pictures when
setting background, all looked good, background set to pic in (linked) Pictures
dir
deleted falbackPictures
went back to Settings to check that I could still see contents of Pictures when
setting background, still looked good
shutdown now -r
on reboot background had defaulted to a Lobster (not Minotaur ??)
went to Settings, now cant see contents of Pictures to set background
$ln -s path_to_22.04_home_Pictures Pictures
$ls Pictures
all looked as it should, went to Settings, still couldn't see contents of
Pictures to set background
Looked in (linked) Pictures from filemanager, right-click a picture, select
"use as wallpaper" (or similar wording, on wrong box now)
went back to desktop, background still Lobster
should a symlink persist? did I miss a step,
the 22.04 disk is auto mounted (AFAIK) at boot, it is always there on te
launcher/dock
ideas please
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