Re: using /home with potato & woody

[Pietro Cagnoni <pcagnoni@mclink.net>]

> In my laptop I've three partitions
> hda1= Debian Potato all directories but /home
> hda2= /home currently referring to Potato
> hda3= Woody all in this partition
> 
> Now I'd like to refer both potato and woody to the same /home
> partition (hda2) and of course to the same user victor (that's me!).
> 
> Is that possible?
> If yes, what steps should I take to be on the safe side?

i think you just need to check that the numeric user ids are the same,
and fiddle with your fstab.
for a quick check, mount hda2 as /home on woody, and use some ls -l to
see if everything looks ok. i don't think you can do any damage if you
don't start typing rm commands randomly... :-)

pietro.