Sharing Bookmarks etc between 2 OS's

[Harry L. Lee]

you can use something like foxmarks to do this.

On 6/10/07, Jeremy Teale <lists at hypnogogic.org> wrote:
>
> 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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