12 Mar
2006
12 Mar
'06
10:14 p.m.
How do you share the home directory and its data on multiple distributions
which may or may not have similar software without damaging the application
preferences. eg. If KDE_DIR is different for two distributions then
wallpapers normally blank out. How do you avoid that?
Nikhil
12 Mar
12 Mar
11:36 p.m.
On 3/12/06, Nikhil Marathe <nsm.nikhil(a)gmail.com> wrote:
How do you share the home directory and its data on
multiple distributions
which may or may not have similar software without damaging the application
preferences...
You can set a separate partition for the /home directory which you
mount at boot in each of the distros.
Siddhesh
13 Mar
13 Mar
2:51 p.m.
On 3/12/06, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh.poyarekar(a)gmail.com> wrote:
You can set a separate partition for the /home directory which you
mount at boot in each of the distros.
Siddhesh
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Yes thats my current setup. I want to know how I can continue with this
without messing up the .kde and .mozilla and other application preferences.
Because I have SuSe and Arch. Suse KDE is in /opt/kde3, for arch it is
/opt/kde. So it causes windecs, themes, kicker wallpapers, panel preferences
problems.
Nikhil
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3:57 p.m.
On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 22:14 +0530, Nikhil Marathe wrote:
How do you share the home directory and its data on
multiple distributions
which may or may not have similar software without damaging the application
preferences. eg. If KDE_DIR is different for two distributions then
wallpapers normally blank out. How do you avoid that?
Just curious, why do you want to create this headache for yourself.
Depending on the distros you will run into problems with the location of
where the applications are installed as well as uid/gid issues.
IMO, it is best to settle on one distro and use it for your various
needs. If you want to get a "feel" for the various distros then try
virtualization.
Having said above, in the past I have shared /home with SuSE 9.3 and FC4
but don't do it anymore. Except for uid/gid mappings which I changed
with "chown -R <uid>:<gid> $HOME", applications like KDE,
Openoffice,
Gnome worked fine.
Another option:
1. Have /home on the "root" partition for each distro itself, this
will allow you have distro specific dot files for the various
apps when you create the userid during the install process.
2. Have another partition (e.g. /dev/hda2) to hold your personal
dirs/files that you would normally have under $HOME.
3. Mount /dev/hda2 on /data and create a sub-dir with your userid
(that is common on all the distros you install). Give
read/write permission to this uid/gid.
4. Create sub dirs (folders) under above dir for other sub dirs and
files.
5. In your $HOME dir create links to the sub dirs and files you
have created in step 4. Keep in mind, you will still need to
change the mappings of uid:gid (as root or a boot script)
in /data/<userid> for each specific distro that you boot.
HTH,
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Arun Khan
Linux is like a wigwam - no gates, no windows, apache inside
7:05 p.m.
What you can try is mount a partition as /home and for the other you can
create a directory inside that /home and mount that new directory as /home
of the other distribution. Hope you get what I was trying to say. :D
Or best is to keep a separate partition for data, mount it as anything, and
keep a symlink to it in /home.
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Regards,
Sanket Medhi.
14 Mar
14 Mar
9 a.m.
I got an idea. Keep all my files in /data which is a shared partition then
since my username is same on all distros, recursive chmod it. And then every
distro has a small /home of about 100megs only for app preferences like KDE,
firefox files. Everything else is in data.
9:18 a.m.
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 09:00, Nikhil Marathe wrote:
I got an idea. Keep all my files in /data which is a
shared partition then
since my username is same on all distros, recursive chmod it. And then
every distro has a small /home of about 100megs only for app preferences
like KDE, firefox files. Everything else is in data.
Username doesn't make a difference. It's the UID and GID that matters.
Different distros use different values. I have created a different user
account just for this purpose. I use the same UID across multiple distros. I
use ACL to manage 'extra' permissions so that only one other user can modify
the files in this directory.
Oh and if you want my advise, do NOT share /home. Bad idea.
Mrugesh
16 Mar
16 Mar
12:23 a.m.
Sometime on Mar 14, NM cobbled together some glyphs to say:
I got an idea. Keep all my files in /data which is a
shared partition
then since my username is same on all distros, recursive chmod it. And
but is your uid the same? username is just a string. uid is the real
identifier.
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3:02 a.m.
On 3/16/06, Philip Tellis <philip.tellis(a)gmx.net> wrote:
but is your uid the same? username is just a string. uid is the real
identifier.
If you are distros based on the same architecture, it should work fine. For
example, Debian and Ubuntu wont seemingly pose a problem. But again you have
to take care of user management.
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Regards,
Sanket Medhi.
8:45 a.m.
On Thursday 16 March 2006 03:02, Sanket Medhi wrote:
On 3/16/06, Philip Tellis
<philip.tellis(a)gmx.net> wrote:
> but is your uid the same? username is just a string. uid is the real
> identifier.
I always manually set the UID and GID to 1000 and 100 on all
distros, so I
should be fine.
Nikhil
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