On Mar 20, 5:48 am, "John F. Morse" <xanadu....@example.invalid>
wrote:
> AJackson wrote:
> > You really want a separate /home partition, as it is where you have
> > your personal data, like Todd wants. It's just no device letter in
> > Unix/Linux. All partitions/disks are invinsible to the a normal
> > user. When you change directory, you could change disk, or not.
> > Anyway, separate /home partition is a good idé if you want to
> > reinstall or install another linux distribution, you could have access
> > to you personal data from all of them. Just tell them to mount the
> > home disk at /home
>
> Be careful here. A separate /home partition is very good to have, but
> creating access from "foreign" distros can cause permission problems.
>
> Some time back I added an openSuse 10.3 distro to a development PC that
> had Windows 98SE, Fedora Core 3, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, Ubuntu 7.10, Debian
> 3.1, and Debian 4.0, which was the previously installed distro, and had
> a very large /home partition. I assigned this /home partition in the
> openSuse partition editor thinking I could easily access the same files.
>
> Of course I used the same username, but openSuse used a different UID.
> Debian had me assigned a UID of 1000, while openSuse assigned 1001. This
> caused all kinds of permissions problems, but thankfully, after I
> removed openSuse, I recursively chown and chgrp throughout my ~/ and put
> the Debian distro back to normal. I lost nothing but some time.
>
> Most likely there is some method to force openSuse to start numbering
> UIDs at 1000, but I didn't have time to research it.

Which is easy to change. Just edit /etc/passwd, and it is solved.