Is it possible to share HOME between Edgy and Dapper

[Derek Broughton]

Earl Violet wrote:

please don't top post.  Now I have to mangle...

> If this [using a shared HOME partition with separate users]
> is being done to make files available to both edgy and 
> dapper, I'd worry about configuration files being over written. I'd

It depends what else is shared.  /etc _can't_ be - it has to be on the root
partition, and if you don't have different root partitions for edgy and
dapper, I don't see how you can actually say you have both versions
installed.  I can't remember if you can share /usr - if you can _and do_,
you'll have problems.

> be more comfortable mounting one partition like the edgy home with
> dapper and sharing both that way and keeping the edgy and dapper
> configuration files separate.

As long as /usr & /etc are on separate partitions for the two versions, and
you're using different users, you won't have any problem.
-- 
derek