Re: Can Kubuntu Dapper/Mandriva 2006 sharea common /home partition?

Thanks all for the useful insight.

Michael Badt


Rick Moen wrote:

Michael Badt <mibadt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My question: Can I share my (Mandriva) /home partition also in Kubuntu
although those a different distributions and different KDE versions? Will
my (Mandriva) existing locale. Kmail, KAddressBook and bookmarks (both
Konqueror and Firefox) stay intact?

I wouldn't chance it.

Applications' dotfiles are _usually_ forwards-compatible between
versions, but very often not backwards-compatible.


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