/home when moving to Fedora from Ubuntu

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Mon May 18 09:45:38 UTC 2015


On Sat, 16 May 2015 13:54:22 -0600, Ronal B Morse wrote:

> However, and it may have been just an old wives' chicken superstition, 
> that one should not share the same /home between different 
> distributions, or use a /home populated by one distribution as /home for 
> another.  The reason given to me is there are too many similarly named 
> setup and configuration files that simply don't "translate" from one 
> distro to another.

"Sharing /home" != "Sharing a user's home dir".

Create different user accounts for each distribution when sharing /home.
Do the same when multi-booting to several Fedora releases.


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