[GLLUG] Sharing /home

[Cory Spitz]

I did this a little while ago.  I found this document useful:

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-partplan.html

Good luck.
-Cory



On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Chick Tower wrote:

> I've been using Mandrake, but I decided to try another distro (Vector
> Linux) based upon reviews I read recently.  It occurred to me that if
> I moved my /home to a separate partition, I could easily access my
> data from both distros.  I have two questions about this.
>
> 1)  Would I do this by editing /etc/fstab and specifying a new mount
> point for /home?
>
> 2)  Might ths be a bad idea, since much of the desktop information
> for window managers is kept in users' home directories?  The distros
> might have different versions of the window managers or application
> software.
>
>                     Chick
>
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