Ah, I understand. Be sure to use separate usernames for 12.04 and 12.10 so your config/settings don't clash.
Another option is to not use separate /home at all, but rather a separate data partition for documents/files.
Ah, I understand. Be sure to use separate usernames for 12.04 and 12.10 so your config/settings don't clash.
Another option is to not use separate /home at all, but rather a separate data partition for documents/files.
Sounds good to me, I do pretty much the same.
@ snowpine, the separate data partition is something i am trying at the moment,
input welcome at this thread.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2117020
Last edited by offgridguy; February 17th, 2013 at 08:27 PM.
Doesn't work like that, at least in my experience, as the home folders for each install in the home partition don't have anything to do with each other. The config files for each are separate, in separate /home folders.
For instance, three installs using the same /home partition will look like this:
/home/username_1
/home/username_2
/home/username_3
They are separate folders and never use the same config files (by config files I assume you mean hidden files/folders). Never had that mix up and have used not only different flavours with this setup but different distros!
Last edited by Bucky Ball; February 18th, 2013 at 03:28 AM.
It will indeed look like this if you choose it to look like this. That exactly suits what I was saying: there is no problem whatsoever if you use different user home folders for different linux flavours on the same partition. Using the same username across the different linux flavours is what is not recommended/supported (i.e., all your installs would use e.g. /home/username_1).
My system crashed last night. My Nvidia driver became corrupted and my attempt to fix it crashed the GUI so I only had access to the command line, which I don't know enough about to use.
I took this opportunity to reinstall Ubuntu from the USB drive which proved my theory about recovery being easier and faster with this partition plan.
Thanks to what I learned from those of you who responded, I made it work!
Here is the article I posted about it:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2117376
Thank you all!
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