On Sunday 29 February 2004 22:50, IanBell wrote:
I am thinking of re-partitioning to include a permanent /home partition which can be used by either linux distro. This way I can install or upgrade distros to my hearts content without having to worry about transferring user files. So the question, does this work, is it practical, are ther any pitfalls?
The only problem I can see would be if there was significant version gaps between any tools or applications that use a .profile in your home dir.
For example I happen to know through personal pain that both Grip and Phoenix/ FIrebird/Firefly have made non backward compatable changes to the format of their configuration files between versions. I am also sure I've encountered stuff that silently upgrades it's configuration files on first run (KMail ?), of course breaking backwards compatability. But overall I'd say that if you keep to distro's of the same era these problems should be few and far between.
Wayne