On Tuesday 27 November 2012 13:41:16 Randy Barlow wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:01:28 -0500, Michael Orlitzky > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > You can work around it fairly easily, though. Just mount all of your > > version-independent stuff separately, under ~/Documents or whatever. > > Or never go back to Ubuntu =) > > This is good advice. Another potential solution is to use symlinks to > map the OS-dependent files to the right places. > > Or you could make /home/username be OS dependent, with another OS > independent volume mounted somewhere, perhaps /home/os_independent.
My solution is to have a separate partition called 'common' which I mount under my user home directory in whichever Linux I'm running at the time. Then anything I think I might need anywhere I just put in /home/prh/common/... -- Rgds Peter
