[WLUG] A couple of questions...

[John Wiersba]

Union mounts, unionfs?  Haven't tried it myself...

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> From: Gary Morr <gpmorr at comcast.net>
>To: Washtenaw Linux Users Group (WLUG) <washlug at washlug.org> 
>Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 3:14 AM
>Subject: Re: [WLUG] A couple of questions...
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>On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 01:49:41 PM Rick Green wrote:
>> 1) I'm setting up an external hard drive that I'll use for audio files. It
>> needs to be mountable and writable on both Linux and Mac OSX systems. What
>> filesystem would I select to optimize reliability and I/O thruput on both of
>> these systems?
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>> 2) I'd like to set up a multi-boot system, with each OS mounting the same
>> volume for my home directory.  I have problems, however, with application
>> configuration files getting corrupted from a different version of the same. 
>> Is there some way I can set up a filesystem so that all of the 'dot' files
>> in my home directory are stored on the OS boot drive, and all the 'regular'
>> files are on my separate home drive, mounted as an 'overlay', so that as a
>> user I see all of them appearing to be in one home directory?
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>2).  Place a directory on each OS drive readable and writeable by only you.  
>Put your home drive on another partition.  Move your .config files to the OS 
>drive directories.  Add links in your home directory to the .config files on the 
>OS drives.  Of course the paths and directory names must be the same.
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>I have not tried this but it is the best I can come up with at the moment.  
>How about it guys, we have some good people out there.  Any other ideals?
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