Chris Knadle wrote:
However barring that, my experience has been that normal unencrypted
swap partitions work across different distributions.
That's been my experience so far too, but then I haven't tried everything.
IIRC, I investigated via google search the possibility of sharing /home
among distros. The immediate result was that this won't work. The apps
have hidden files (dot files) on /home. For example, Firefox on distro A
will conflict with Firefox on distro B.
I'm using the method suggested by "Bit Twister" in the Mandriva
newsgroup. I have a separate "accounts" partition:
[adam@eris ~]$ ls -A /accounts/adam/
.libreoffice/ .pan2/ Music/ book1/ share/
.mozilla/ .pypar2/ Pictures/ cdcatalog/
.ooo3/ .thunderbird/ Videos/ class/
.openoffice.org/ Documents/ bin/ mp3/
[adam@eris ~]$
with links from the various /home/adam directories as appropriate. My
current /home has .mozilla defined as a symlink to
/accounts/adam/.mozilla . When another distro gets a comparable version
of Firefox/Seamonkey, I can link that one too, and pick up replying
where I'd left off with the older distro.
Adam
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