On Sun, 12 Jul 2009, José Miguel Parrella Romero wrote:
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> Chuck Hast escribió:
>> Folks,
>> On my netbook, I have plenty of space (500G) I already have Ubuntu on
>> this machine, people ask me so many questions about it I figured I would
>> add Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Edubuntu as I figured seeing the real thing is
>> better than just a description. Besides on these long trips it gives me more
>> things to work with. My question is, can all of them share the same home
>> directory, I figure were it not for the fact that all of the user setup stuff is
>> stuffed in there it would not be a problem but since all of the setup for the
>> user is in home, will they get in a pissing contest over who owns what?
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> First of all, you have to make sure numeric user identifiers are the
> same in all three systems, which should not be a problem if you'll be
> using Debian-based distros and you're the only user in the system
> (you'll probably be uid 1000) -- otherwise you'll have permission issues.
You can change a UID to whatever you want, I think with the "usermod"
program. Probably should do this when the user is logged out.
> Finally, there're file locking issues with some applications which are
> not relying on file system locking anymore, such as OpenOffice.org 3.1,
> just make sure to properly close applications before shuting down the
> operating system and starting another.
They can share swap space if you don't hibernate one and run another.
> I think I tried this between Gentoo and Debian 2-3 years ago and my
> gconf configuration went away. So be careful.
I was thinking you could link identical files, but that would probably cause
your package management system to throw a wobbly.
-- -eben QebWenE01R@vTerYizUonI.nOetP royalty.mine.nu:81Unix is user-friendly; it's just picky about who it makes friends with.
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