Common HOME over many versions

[Tom H]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>     Yes been thinking and that may be the solution. I see no real
> problem using fdisk to mount a partition to /data. Then the HOME would
> stay with each version. I will DO things and discover why you don't want
> to do THAT ;-)

I assume (and hope) that you mean that you will create a partition
with fdisk and mount it as /data...

Make sure that the "karl" user has the same uid and gid on the systems
on your box and check the man pages for the correct mount options and
mount-point owner and mode.