Dual booting FC2 with FC1

Gerry Tool gstool at earthlink.net
Fri May 21 01:33:57 UTC 2004


Robin Laing wrote:
> 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.
> 
I'm glad you found it useful.  As you suggested, I do also find it 
useful to have the persistent data available in other distros I'm trying 
out.

Gerry





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