two distros sharing home [solved]

[onefriedrice]

Hi.

I've had Gentoo on my laptop forever and I recently installed Ubuntu so I can test some of my things on a Debian-based OS. So here's how my disk ended up:

hda1: / (Ubuntu)
hda2: /boot (shared)
hda3: /swap
hda4: / (Gentoo)

The disk isn't really big and it would be convenient to share the home directory between the two. I'm not sure how this would be done since my home isn't a separate partition but is a subdirectory of my Gentoo root. I would know how to edit fstab on Ubuntu if /home was its own partition, but I don't know how to make it mount a subdirectory of a partition.

Any hints?

[artworcs]

First mount the partition to /mnt/hda1 and do a ln -sf /mnt/hda1/home /home
So that Ubuntu has /home and gentoo has a link

Edit: or the other way around depending on your available space

[onefriedrice]

Hey that's pretty slick. I didn't even think of symlinks. Thanks.

It's working pretty well. Only issue I saw was the firefox icon was missing from the gnome toolbar. Easily remedied. This will be nice; thanks again.