Peter Humphrey wrote: > 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/... >
I used to have something similar myself. I had a directory called /data. It had everything that I wouldn't want to lose even if I switched OS's or something. I always had it on a separate drive too. I kept documents, pictures, videos and such in there. This started back when I was switching from Mandrake to Gentoo. I only recently got rid of it and moved everything to my home directory like it should be since I only have one distro. That took me almost 10 years to change. lol I read the other day that Seamonkey says that going back a version could lead to data loss. It will actually detect that it is running a older version and renames some file to .old or something. The old settings/data would be lost. I'm not sure but Firefox may do something similar. I wouldn't be surprised if other apps do this too. I think they should support going back at least a few versions. I can see them not going back to Seamonkey V1 tho. OP, I would get my feet wet and when you get used to Gentoo and decide whether you are going to keep it or switch, then move things to a more permanent location. Just be very careful when deleting things. That rm command is pretty unforgiving. Sometimes, links can get you into trouble. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
