Sharing Bookmarks etc between 2 OS's

[Jeremy Teale]

On Sunday 10 June 2007 19:25:43 Ed Smits wrote:
> I'm trying to set up my new laptop so that it runs Feisty by default
> with an option to boot to FC7. I've managed to get both OS's installed
> , each has it's own 20GB / partition (reiserfs for Ubuntu, ext3 for
> FC7) and they share an 80 GB /home partition (reiserfs), I can boot
> between them no problem, GRUB handles it fine.
>
> At present I have 2 user home directories, one for each OS, but would
> ultimately like to have just one home directory used from both OS's,
> so that my bookmarks etc don't get out of sync. I also have a 16 GB
> VMWare directory in my home folder that I would like to be able to
> access from either OS. Is there any way to do this? I tried fooling
> around with permissions but managed to screw things up pretty badly, I
> assume there must be some better way to do this, I can't be the first
> to want this solution.
>
> Hope you can help
>
>
> ED

You could setup your home directory on an NFS share. But, that would prevent 
you from using, say, Firefox, on both machines at the same time. Firefox 
would set a lock file that would prevent the other machine from being able to 
start up Firefox. There may also be version inconsistencies that would cause 
strange things to happen within your configuration directories in your home 
folder. I would not advise using one home folder across multiple OSs that run 
different versions of the same application or that run them at the same time.

Another possibility would be to sync the directories on a nightly basis with 
something like rsync.

Lastly, something like Conduit may be of interest to you. 
http://www.conduit-project.org/

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