Good morning, this thread should be moved to the support mailinglist, as it is no longer factory-related. On 20.03.23 at 00:29 Fritz Hudnut wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion, so far I have not liked the "window in a window" aspect of a VM, but instead prefer the "bare metal" install, each distro has its own / partition, and some of them share the partition for the /home.
Your first answer says you do not share the /home partition but this answer says Yes.
The /home is a "directory" right?? One can have numerous "directories" "sharing the partition" without any issues of corruption or interminglingness . . . . And, if there is an issue with /, as I recently had with my Sid install, it is easy and clean to install a new / while maintaining the same name for the /home directory.
Are you sure that all of the linux installations use the same uid/gid for your user? If not, then you will run into trouble. If you are using different usernames and only us the same partition for /home on each linux, then you should be fine. /home/user1 will be used on one distribution and /home/user2 on another. Kind Regards, Johannes -- Johannes Kastl Linux Consultant & Trainer Tel.: +49 (0) 151 2372 5802 Mail: kastl@b1-systems.de B1 Systems GmbH Osterfeldstraße 7 / 85088 Vohburg http://www.b1-systems.de GF: Ralph Dehner Unternehmenssitz: Vohburg / AG: Ingolstadt,HRB 3537