/home directories

[jon787]

I am going to install a second distro of linux (actually it will be Linux From Scratch) on my system. I am wondering if it is safe to have both use the same /home partition? Or should they be seperate?

I am the only user on the system.

[Jinx]

Gday mate,

My understanding is it shouldn't matter, as long as the /home partition is a seperate partition, you can mount it on either installs.

Good luck.

Cya round
Jinx

[Stween]

It *should* be alright.

Just about anything you are using just now will then use the configuartions they have saved in your home directory when you get them recompiled.

Give it a go .... if anything causes any real problems its easy anough to remove (or rename) the configs.


Stween

[jon787]

Thanks

[slacker_x]

you could run into problems if you are running different versions of programs under each distro.

Say .file is generated by app-v2.0 and then you boot into your other distro and run app-v1.0, it might not be able to interpret the .file correctly.