You won’t be able to swap between them any time the user is logged in (files 
are open).

You could certainly run a script at boottime that would determine which system 
was booting and then make a symlink to the correct /home

You could merge the /home into a single one and symlink all the systems to use 
the common /home

There are probably other options as well.


> On Apr 27, 2019, at 1:08 PM, Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Yes, my question is as strange as the subject line ;o>
> 
> The hard drive on my old desktop is dying.
> I've copied the /home partition to a flash drive.
> I've a laptop with 3 separate configurations of Debian installed.
> Each is optimized for different goals.
> The fstab file of each references the same physical partition as /home.
> 
> Ideally I want the most recent install to be able to "hot swap" between the 
> the two "home partitions".
> 
> Alternatively would it be possible to chose between 2 different fstab files 
> at boot time?
> 
> Is there a sane alternative?
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
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