Greetings All,
Now that SUSE 12.1 is available, I will probably install it on my production machine. However, being the cautious person I am, I am going to do a NEW install on a separate partition, and leave my
11.4 system untouched (just in case).
The question is, can the same HOME partition be safely mounted between these two systems? Is there something that 12.1 may set that will cause 11.4 to get upset (such as KDE settings)?
Or is 12.1 similar enough that HOME can coexist nicely with 11.4.
I’m not too concerned about forward levels (11.4->12.1). It is reloading 11.4, after 12 has run that may surface issues.
I really don’t want to create two separate HOME partitions if they are not absolutely required.
If all goes well with 12.1, I will probably NOT need the 11.4 partition, BUT, Murphy and I have been good friends over the years. So I want to keep 11.4 around for a while “just in case”.
Thanx in advance.
Rich
I advise against trying that.
The possible problem, is that the settings for individual applications and desktops might be incompatible between the two versions. When you first try 12.1, the configurations would probably be migrated to what is needed for the new version. But migration is only in one direction, and you might have problems going back to 11.4.
Here’s what I would do:
I would mount the 11.4 home partition somewhere else, say as “/xhome”.
I would go without a separate home partition on 12.1.
In my 12.1 home directory, I would create symlinks back to the 11.4 home directory for all ordinary files and directories (those with names not beginning with “.”). That way, those would be usable from either system. Optionally, I might copy (rather than link) the files/directories with names that begin with “.”
On 2011-11-17 22:16, richardrosa wrote:
> The question is, can the same HOME partition be safely mounted between
> these two systems? Is there something that 12.1 may set that will cause
> 11.4 to get upset (such as KDE settings)?
> Or is 12.1 similar enough that HOME can coexist nicely with 11.4.
This is not recomended. 12.1 will be happy enough, but 11.4 not.
> I’m not too concerned about forward levels (11.4->12.1). It is
> reloading 11.4, after 12 has run that may surface issues.
> I really don’t want to create two separate HOME partitions if they are
> not absolutely required.
You can share the partition if you use different users.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)