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 > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Louis Kowolowski [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Cryptomonkeys: http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/ <http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/> Making life more interesting for people since 1977 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
