On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:28, TheOldFellow wrote: > I'm trying to set up a system as a dual boot, with two different > Linuxes. I want to be able to mount a 'personal partition' on either > system, so it will appear in both fstabs mounted at /home/user. > The reason is that I want to maintain the use of things like mail, > bookmarks and user settings on either boot. > The problem is things like Firefox which keep their data files > in .directories. Some of the versions are different between the two > systems too. > > Ideally I'd keep all my personal files in /home/user/myfiles, and cross > mount that, but the damn .files will be at the /home/user level - and > some things, like the Mozillas, insist on their own heirarchy. > > Has anyone done this before successfully, and how did they manage these > issues?
I've never done what you are contemplating so I don't speak from experience but this article ( http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7714. ) is where I would start. __ BUT__ Do I understand it correctly???. That said I'm not sure about the benefits you seem to think are there - especially in the case you cite - Firefox. I can say that 2 different versions of Firefox (1.0.6 and 2.0.0.5) seem to quite happily share the same profile directory/file on my system at the moment (Although I haven't tried to run both at the same time :-) ). If you did have seperate profile directories I think you would tend to curse when you couldn't find the bookmark or history entry that was created when you were on the other "side". Regards Tony. > > R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
