On Sunday 12 July 2009 09:27, Chuck Hast wrote:
> 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?
They can all share the same swap partition. I have had three distros on one
HD.
If you easily want to share data, save it to a FAT 32 partition. There is no
problem for them to all be able to read and write to it.
Richard Smoot
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