home partition between 2 systems

[Goh Lip]

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Sunday 24 May 2009, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
>> Bruce Marshall wrote:
>>> I think at the very least, I would copy my .kde  directory for a backup,
>>> if not the entire /home directory.
>> Imho there are chances that it will work. However I would rather do the
>> latter than the former.
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Eberhard
> 
> Oh definitely it "might work"  and I do it all the time when doing fresh 
> installs of the SAME  distro.    But I have been burned at times.... never 
> completely.
> 
> But I don't think I would do it between distros and I  certainly wouldn't 
> expect it to work if what I wanted was to dual-boot between those distros.  I 
> could almost guarantee there will be some problem between the two.
> 
> 
Willy, I do not have as much experience as Bruce and Eberhard, but even 
when  dual booting having same distro's with different kde version, I 
have run into some problems with .kde  Say, Jaunty with kde 4.2.3 and 
Karmic with kde 4.3 will have problems if sharing same home partition.
So, I have a very large separate partition where only data is shared or 
downloaded to. /home is kept to minimal in same / partition. .mozilla, 
.mozilla-thunderbird is okay to be shared even between different 
distro's; so before firing up FF of thunderbird, I just replace the 
.mzilla-thunderbird at /home from the other OS partition. (that's why I 
don't use kmail now).

regards,
Goh Lip