Gus Wirth wrote:
At 12:26 11/08/2005 -0800, Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Would it be unwise to have a partition /home (or /root) being mounted as
/home (or /root) under various installs? Basicly I'm wondering if there
would be problems from having, say, rh9 and fc3 sharing /home (or /root).
How bad could it be?
You're going to have problems with Gnome, not sure about KDE. Gnome keeps
its desktop layout in a bunch of files in hidden directories, and those
changed between RH9 and FC3. FC3 might be backward compatible, but don't
bet on RH9 working after you share the home directory with FC3. I had a ton
of problems with RH9 and FC1 and that was supposed to be a simple upgrade.
You could consider renaming the Gnome directories to something else and
then letting the new install create new directories and files. Then rig a
script to swap back and forth depending on which OS you are running.
This probable incompatibility is just the sort of thing I wanted to find
out about.
Except for how to do it, I already knew what I would want to do as an
alternative to actually sharing /home. I could have a separate partition
containing /user1 and so on. And in every distro, add to fstab a mount
for /mnt/common and then somehow tell fstab to do a --move (or even
--bind if I must) for /mnt/common/user1 to /home/user1/common. In this
way, it would be a necessary decent into a subdirectory for each user,
but one-off is better than nothing.
I just don't know how to tell fstab to mount with --move (or --bind).
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