On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 05:28:26PM +0100, TheOldFellow wrote:
>
> 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?
>
The only thing I'll add to what has been said is "check your
groups, and whatever is run from .bash_login and .bashrc". When I
started using LFS, /home was shared with a mandrake install (after my
first distro change, I quickly realised that a separate /home would
suit me), and on my ibook I've used debian as a base.
Neither gave me any real trouble, but I can remember reading a
detailed article in 'Linux Magazine' (that's the British version of
the German mag, not the similarly named American mag) about sharing
/home between Suse and something else. It went into some detail
about setting up environment variables, and I think you might find
some distros go to great lengths to use groups, e.g. giving sound to
the console user, so conceivably you could see odd ownership of
files.
I share /home across multiple {,c}lfs builds on each of my desktops,
and on my server. The only oddity I see with sharing firefox across
builds is that it's very prone to telling me I've upgraded it when I
start it, but the only down side to that is an extra open tab, or
sometimes it decides to give me that _instead_ of my home page.
Neither is an earth-shattering problem.
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