On 11/14/05, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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).
A couple of lines copied from my /etc/fstab:
#
/dev/shm /tmp none rw,bind 0 0
/var/tmp /usr/tmp none rw,bind 0 0
First column is where it really is. Second column is what you want it
to look like.
carl
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