Dual booting FC2 with FC1

[Robin Laing]

Gerry Tool wrote:
> Robin Laing wrote:
> 
>> Gerry Tool wrote:
>>
>>> Dave wrote:
>>>
>>>
>> What about issues with ~/ config files if you want to share /home 
>> between FC1 and FC2?  Will there be problems?
>>
>> I am looking at putting FC2 on a partition but use the same /home 
>> directories until I have FC2 fully configured.  My wife would kill me 
>> otherwise. :)
>>
> My solution to this problem is to make a separate /lnxdata partition on 
> which I keep everything except config information which goes in /home. 
> Then I let there be a separate /home within the / partition of each 
> install and just use the /lnxdata to do all data sharing.  If you want 
> to share something that is in your old /home in the new one, just mount 
> the old / partition and make a link in your new /home to whatever it is 
> in your old /home.  For example, I link to the evolution folder in my 
> FC1 /home to use the same one in my FC2 /home. Then I never need to 
> worry about incompatible configs, and the /lnxdata partition carries on 
> from install to install with all my persistent data.
> 
> Another benefit is that the baggage from old configs doesn't get in the 
> way of changed configuration file formats in the new install.
> 
> Hope this is useful.
> 
> Gerry Tool
> 
> 
I see a great benefit in this if wanting to test other distros as well.

I do see a problem if (as in my case) another user creates files and 
directories in their home directories.  But this is an education issue.

I like the idea and I will have to do some moving as I presently have 
/home as a md0 partition.  I try to put all my data into one 
subdirectory.  Of course applications create their own directories by 
default.

At work we use nfs home directories and I have run into some problems 
in the past.

Thanks.

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