Multiple Fedoras

[Andras Simon]

On 6/2/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 02:42 +0200, Frode Petersen wrote:
> > If you take care at keeping UIDs and GIDs consistent, I think it would
> > be safe to
> >
> > 1. Keep all your work files in a ~/work directory on the home
> > partition.
> >
> > 2. In the second OS, mount the home partition to something like
> > /mnt/otherOS/home
> >
> > 3. symlink the work directory into your new home directory.
> >
> > Or maybe
> >
> > 1. Use a separate partition for /home/<username>/work
> >
> > 2. Edit /etc/fstab to mount this on the OS' you want it available in.
>
> I do something similar.  I have a spare partition that I symlink between
> personal sub-directories and home space.
>
> e.g. Inside /home/tim have a symlink to /space/tim/
>
> I do something similar with storage space networked, symlinking from
> the /net/server/home/tim/stuff into /home/tim/network/.
>
> You can keep your personal files anywhere you like, though large files
> that need high speed access are usually better off locally stored.
>

Thanks to all who responded. Re /home, it's the least of my worries,
because I have only a handful of init files, and most of them are
practically unchanged since 1994 :-)

Andras