[plug] shared /home for dual-booting two distros

[Jason Posavec]

The system I use may be of use to you, Gavin. I have a drive that is
accessable by both Linux and Windows. When I boot into Windows, it
mounts as my "My Documents" folder, when I boot into Linux, it's a
symbolic link from my /home directory.

All my files, data, songs, videos, etc are in this directory. My /home
directory more or less just contains my settings. Just mount sdc with
your 2nd distro as - say - /gavinII and put a symbolic link to it in
your home directory. Oh, and chown it to gavin:gavin as well, of course.

Hope this helps.

Jason



Gavin Chester wrote:

>Thanks, Richard.  That's a suggestion that I hadn't thought about.
>Also, thanks for confirming the complexity of it all :-(  OTOH, for this
>'trial' period dual-booting 2 distros, I will probably just copy across
>any files/docs/spreadsheets/etc that I generate in one /home - or just
>access them as needed from each partition to do work on them.  I had
>this fanciful notion that I could simplify things with one /home, but
>the mechanics of it aren't worth it.
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