[plug] Multi Distro

[Craig Ringer]

> Just windering what would it be like to have dual boot of Mandrake, Red hat 
> and Windows with the linuxs sharing the same Home directory?
Do-able but you'd have to watch issues with dotfiles having conflicting
info. Some apps might behave a bit strange, especially if you have
different versions on each distro.

A suggested workaround (_ugly_ but works): leave /home as part of / and
mount your homedir partition on /home/<username>/data or whatever. That
way all dotfiles etc are still distro-specific.

You could use some 2.4 mounting magic (what's it called? graft points?)
to mount your homedir-data partition's subdirs onto each user's homedir
like this

/dev/hdx					/dev/hdy						
	/home/bob/data		<-		/bob	
	/home/steffi/data	<-		/steffi
	/home/jan/data		<-		/jan
	/home/steve/data	<-		/steve

Let me know if you try it and it works, I've never even tried it out and
don't know how to go about it but I've heard its a kernel 2.4 feature.

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|  Craig Ringer
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