On Friday 04 Nov 2005 10:18 pm, Philip Tellis wrote: > > You have to worry about file ownership. Make sure your uid and gid are > the same on both distros. If you do that, then you can just mount the > same home partition from both distros. I've done this with 3 distros in > the past, sharing swap, /home, /tmp and /var/spool/mail, with 3 common > users. You just need to keep /etc/passwd and /etc/group in sync.
I am wiping out my harddisk and just copying the files as a backup using K3B. Will it work if I keep the permissions the same. -Nikhil
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