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On 06/01/18 12:17, Richard Brown wrote: > Thanks for all the replies. Mr Meowski's reply summed up where I am > exactly. He couldn't have made it clearer and it really helped. So > this morning I tested the idea out on my laptop (it has no data on it) > and totally messed up the install. I was using Fedora 27 and had the > same crashing issues. So I thought I would install kde on Fedora. I > don't know how I managed to get it so wrong but on the boot menu I > ended up with an install of Ubuntu and install of Fedora. > > So I'm installing a fresh version of Ubuntu on my laptop. I have since > been reading around the possible problems. I have been using Dropbox > and the demon running that has caused Gnome 3 users problems. Some > extensions have been causing some issues. I am going to persevere with > Fedora on the main desktop and see if I stop using the Dropbox demon > and cease using Gnome extensions whether that improves things. > > I do have data backed up thankfully but I am persevering. If it still > causes issues I will be getting hold of a ssd and using that to run as > my primary drive and have the 2 sata disks as seperate from the system > disk. I think I taught myself a lesson here! > > Thanks for the continued help. > > On 6 January 2018 at 11:56, Peter Walker <peter.walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> On 06/01/18 10:56, leloft wrote: >>> On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 13:51:10 +0000 >>> Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>> The other task I want to do is to keep my home directory and share >>>> between the 2 installs. How easy is it to do that please? >>> >>> It's easy if you have installed /home on its own partition... >>> >>> But I would not do that until I was confident that the problems would >>> not also be thus shared. >> >> One other thing to note about sharing your home directory. Most of the config for >> your desktop and applications is stored there so could get a bit messy if you >> have different setups for each install. >> As Fraser said, problems with plugins etc. would be carried between installs. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Pete >> >> -- >> The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG >> https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list >> FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq > > > If you use "ONE" "/home" directory with TWO distributions, due to the config stuff stored therein it is helpful to have NO DATA whatsoever on "/home" EXCEPT "/home/distro-1home" and "/home/distro-2home". This uses one home but with two sub-homes, one for each distro. I have used this when having two distos on one hard drive. (Not my ideal, I prefer to put distros each on its own hard drive.) -- regards Eion MacDonald -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq