Share Home between 2 releases

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 at 21:32, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 at 18:40, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ..
> > So, despite multiple people disagreeing with me, I stand by my statement:
> >
> > You can't do this. Don't even try. You will regret it.
>
> Perhaps what you are saying is that if someone has to ask the question
> then they can't and if they didn't need to ask the question then they
> can try, and may succeed, but they will have to live with any
> unexpected consequences.
>
> I didn't disagree with you, just asked the question.  I suppose when
> someone says something is not possible (in any context) I have a
> tendency to probe the limits of the assertion, which I know can be
> dangerous.

That's entirely fair, yes. :-)

It bothers me slightly that distros have mostly moved away from
separate /home partitions. When I joined SUSE in 2017 it was still the
recommendation in openSUSE; now when I leave them in 2021 it's no
longer recommended.

It's such a useful tool, IMHO.

Perhaps my message should have been:

It is much much better to do this the _right_ way: with a separate
/home partition.

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