On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:07, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 03/30/2016 07:20 AM, jdd wrote:
Le 30/03/2016 13:15, Carlos E. R. a écrit :
Also interestingly, other Linux distros don't do a separate /home folder, so apparently there are reasons both ways.
I use lot of data (photos and video files), so my work is a bit different.
I'm sort of like that. My personal life involves a lot of photography (not videos), my professional life a lot of documents, many wikified, and a lot of papers as PDFs or presented as PDF versions of presentations or as e-books of papers or e-books of presentations.
So what's under /home/Documents, /home/PDF, and /home/Photographs is very extensive. Extensive enough to be on individual "partitions". They could, given compatible file systems, be mounted for different distribution, if I were running different distributions.
When I can I use a different partition for /home, but it's not really important. What is important is to never use the same /home for various distros/installs
But the idea of having to have different /home/ and hence different /home/anton for each distribution bothers me. Why?
/home is the home of . files, with the applications config. When version change, keeping config is scary, specially if go back and forth.
Scary, frustrating, irritating. Why?
You don't explain why?
Desktop and App config shared between different distros? You want frustation, ulcers, near permantent anger, yes? Doing so will bring your work to a sudden halt. That will not work. Not even inside one distro between versions (e.g. Leap 42.1 and Tumbleweed). Why: a) inside one distro (spanning versions): - changed version of DE interpret config options differently. - one version as a utility, the other does not. - different options during compile. b) between distros: basically a) on steroids, with added fun. for added "WHY" try to switch between SElinux and appArmor. Ergo mounting your $HOME dir (/home/$USER/) in different distros / versions is NOT what you really want. On my work box I must share a /home/ partion between distros, (Centos 7.2 and Leap42.1) for me the Trick was this: /home/myuser.c7/ ; <- for centos7, with selinux /home/myuser.l2/ ; <- for leap42, with apparmor /home/common/{Documents,Templates,Music,Video,.git,Projects,...} And both users ($USER is 'myuser') have the same $UID and $GID. in both $HOME dirs there are links to the folders in "common" This way I get what I need, without the headaches. As long as configs and caches are not 'versioned', doing the full mix is not healty. Hint: trying to use a "roaming" home between different Windows versions will work partially better due to harder enforcement of versioning in registry entries by Microsoft. But not all apps respect that. YMMV - Yamaban.