[Techtalk] /usr Partition

[Wim De Smet]

On 1/21/06, Sue Stones <suzo at spin.net.au> wrote:
> Akkana Peck wrote:
>
> > I got in the habit of keeping /home on the root
> >partition for each distro, and making symlinks from there to
> >the big partition where the images/music/source is stored.
> >But it looks like things have gotten better and sharing /home
> >works a bit better now.
> >
> >
> That's really useful to know.  Can home be shared between distros that
> are based on debian, and those based on red hat?
>
> sue

That should work mostly. I wouldn't recommend trying to use gnome from
woody together with the one from sid. I've had quite some problems
with gnome and kde upgrading their configuration files between major
versions, causing major head-aches in all sorts of areas. It behaves
worst when using gnome with a shared /home on two different machines
since gnome stores machine-specific information (e.g. keyboard layout)
in its config files. It's more annoying than a real show-stopper but
if you start using different versions of gnome on one account it will
probably lead to some allround weirdness.

greets,
Wim