Timeline for Different linux distros sharing the same /home folder?
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| May 8, 2024 at 0:22 | comment | added | jaam |
I don't see how could a fully shared /home work unless you'll use the same DEs and programs (and possibly, their versions) on the sharing distros. However, the latter would be unfeasible, as would entail constant "mirror-(de)installing" of programs on all sharing distros (note that a program might not be even available on all distros)
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| Jul 1, 2012 at 19:35 | vote | accept | behzad.nouri | ||
| Nov 9, 2011 at 17:58 | comment | added | CenterOrbit | I am planning on doing something like this with my home computer, since the last update from Ubuntu has left it quite buggy. I tested the situation out on a virtual first, and the same /home folder does cause a lot of issues, especially with desktop managers, because of permissions on that partition. I think the separate /home's with sym links will be what I end up doing for my PC. I'm gonna use: CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE, possibly Fedora all OS files on LVM, a primary partition for a main /boot and extended partitions for all the other OS /boot files. Since they wont work in LVM | |
| Jan 25, 2011 at 19:36 | comment | added | Fernando Briano | I use the light weight home and another partition for the heavy stuff with symbolic links. Works great, and you can add some configuration for common programs such as firefox in the shared "heavy stuff" partition and replace the files with symlinks. | |
| Jan 25, 2011 at 18:54 | history | edited | wag | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jan 25, 2011 at 12:31 | comment | added | wag | Creating the setup with LVM would make it a lot more flexible and scalable. Using primary/logical partitions works fine for a static setup. Depends on the use case and the available time to implement a solution. | |
| Jan 25, 2011 at 11:57 | comment | added | jmtd | Good answer. I would suggest that you, and anyone else trying something similar, take a look at LVM. | |
| Jan 24, 2011 at 23:08 | history | answered | wag | CC BY-SA 2.5 |