On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 07:16:52AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: > > If you want to share a partition (say home) between different OSes, > then, of course you have to mention it, but it's not recommendable because > config files of several applications are not backward compatible between > versions. Also private applications using dynamically linked libraries might > not find the proper version of the libraries. But of course, it is > convenient to mount the old home from another disk to copy it to the new one > to start from.
I usually share /var/mail between releases. It seems to be compatible between releases (at least it has been for more than a decade), and this keeps mail from getting lost by arriving when the wrong release is in use. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
