How can I mount Tumbleweed's /home partition on another distro?

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I searched online a lot but didn’t find the answer I was looking for.
I have a main partition with Tumbleweed, but on another partition I’m using another distro, currently testing KDE Linux (arch-based immutable distro by KDE).
I guess it’s a bad idea to use the same home partition for different distros, but I can’t even view my files inside /home.
It’s mounted -rw, but I just get a lock icon in Dolphin when i try to enter any folder in my Tumbleweed partition.
What should I try?

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No problem using same /home just not the same user directories. Config files can be different between different Linux ( versions and stuff)

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You better post some factual information instead of only story telling. Like (as root):

fdisk -l

and

lsblk -f

adding a description of what is assumed to be what.

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And to add up: As you are using an experimental distribution (started in 2024) under heavy development, which still lacks fundamental functions (have a look at their documentation), you may also ask at the appropriate development channels of this distribution.

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So, are we referring to “KDE neon”?
If yes, I wouldn’t label it as lacking (or other similar terms), since it is based on the stable Ubuntu LTS base.

(Heck, it’s not uncommon for a TW “dup” to result in broken software | subsystems)

KDE neon also has Testing and Unstable editions.

To @aronkvh … can you show the actual command you’re executing to mount the TW /home, and paste it in a Reply using the Preformatted Text </> feature.

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Please, read up on the new KDE Linux. It is NOT KDE Neon…as explained in several KDE keynotes, presentations and other stuff…it is not that hard to find.

“KDE Linux” (codenamed “Project Banana”) is a work-in-progress name of a KDE-owned general-purpose Linux® distribution proposed at Akademy 2024. Not to be confused with KDE neon.

https://community.kde.org/KDE_Linux

The TO already described explicitely that he uses the new arch based KDE Linux:

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Don’t be so pedantic. See $title

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What file system (btrfs, ext4, …) do you use with Tumbleweed?

In case you are using btrfs with Tumbleweed is your /home a subvolume? Or is it on a separate partition in an own file system?

Did you check the file owner ship (uid!) and access rights?

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Tumbleweed is in the “tags” at the top.
I have asked for the other info ~20 hours ago.