Sharing home partition with ubuntu

jahid · 2017-08-20 08:41:21

Can I share a home partition between Ubuntu (16.04) and Archlinux?

I will have the same sets of softwares, but they may be of different versions.

jasonwryan · 2017-08-20 08:47:49

You can. It will create issues for you, though.

Moving to NC...

alex.theoto · 2017-08-21 09:08:59

If you use ubuntu lts where app versions are older than Arch has, most of the time you'll have no problem. I say most because I had once debian stable and Arch with the same /home and when I opened firefox, there was a 'preparing' window just to check the configs because the versions were very different. But there was no problem at the applications.

drcouzelis · 2017-08-21 12:37:58

One way to avoid having problems with a shared home directory is to to split up your personal files and your configuration files. For example...

Create an Arch Linux user "archuser" with a home directory here:

/home/archuser

And create an Ubuntu user "ubuntuuser" with a home directory here:

/home/ubuntuuser

And create a "shared" area for your personal files here:

/home/personalfiles
/home/personalfiles/Documents
/home/personalfiles/Music
/home/personalfiles/Videos
...

After that, you can use "soft links" or "bind mounts" to make your life easier, if you want.

jahid · 2017-08-21 13:05:43

drcouzelis wrote:

One way to avoid having problems with a shared home directory is to to split up your personal files and your configuration files. For example...
Create an Arch Linux user "archuser" with a home directory here:
/home/archuser
And create an Ubuntu user "ubuntuuser" with a home directory here:
/home/ubuntuuser
And create a "shared" area for your personal files here:
/home/personalfiles
/home/personalfiles/Documents
/home/personalfiles/Music
/home/personalfiles/Videos
...
After that, you can use "soft links" or "bind mounts" to make your life easier, if you want.

Yeah, nice idea, making soft links to existing personal files would do the trick. That way two different users with shared personal files

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Sharing home partition with ubuntu

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