[Discuss] Strategy for dual boot (two LINUX distros) to share most files on /home directory

[Murray Strome]

Thanks, John. This is exactly what I had in mind to do. 

Murray

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Blomfield" <jabfield at shaw.ca>
To: discuss at vlug.org
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2014 10:24:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Discuss] Strategy for dual boot (two LINUX distros) to share most files on /home directory

I solved this problem by storing all my common data on a separated 
partition called, for originality "data" :-) . Then I mount it on 
/home/john/data at start up, with the /etc/fstab file. This means all 
the configuration hidden files are located in the /home/john/ directory 
for what ever version of Linux I happen to be running. The problem is 
that configuration files such as for Thunderbird are in 
/home/john/.thunderbird directory, so I put the generic data in 
....../data/sys/thunderbird and make soft links to it in the 
/home/john/.thunderbird for each different Linux version. It works just 
fine but you have to remember to make the soft links each time you 
install a new Linux version.

John