[Tfug] A truly weird question... :)

[Glen Pfeiffer]

Move your /home onto a separate partition and mount it from both OS's.

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On Nov 7, 2010 1:20 AM, "Jim March" <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK. I don't even know how to phrase the subject line on this one.
>
> Let's say I have a laptop with two different hard disk bays (which I
> do!). I can set the BIOS to boot off of either one. Both bays are
> SATA.
>
> My current boot drive is a conventional 250gig SATA drive. It's
> running Ubuntu Maverick under Gnome, and /home is part of the same
> partition.
>
> What I want is to score a 30 to 40gig SSD, put it in the other drive
> bay, set it up with another OS (probably Sabayon 5.4 with Gnome) and
> have that map to the same /home directory as is found on the current
> 250. BUT then, if I shut down completely and pull the SSD drive out
> (it swaps with a DVD-R drive) I want it to come up with Ubuntu booting
> on the 250 with the same /home directory as I get when I boot from the
> SSD.
>
> Is that even possible?
>
> I want to do this for those rare occasions when I actually need a
> DVD-R drive...95% of the time or more, I'll run with the SSD in the
> swappable DVD-R bay and the magnetic drive in the normal hard drive
> bay (which in a Thinkpad T60P is a rubber-armored monster with
> excellent airflow, perfect for a magnetic drive).
>
> Thoughts? How in hell do I set this up, at least in general terms? I
> can likely work out the details if I have a starting point...
>
> Jim
>
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