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You can use the same separate /home partition, but just make sure that you use a different user name(s) than what you have for your current distribution. I've done this many times with no problem. As long as the user names are different, a separate directory for them will be created, leaving the directories for your current distribution's users alone.

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jboy is completely right. i've done it several times myself. the only hangup i've ever had was that some distributions will let you touch those other users while others won't unless you have root privlieges. fedora plays well with mandrake in case you want to know.

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But you don't really need a seperate user name, as long as you rm the .kde .gnome type dir/files your fine. You can also as root, depending on your username/group

 

chown -h -R user:group /home/user

 

Doesn't matter who owned it before ;)

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What you do need to be careful about is the uid's that different distributions use for default. Mandriva starts users at 501, Debian distros at 1000. File permissions, etc are by uid, not name. So you can have a file owned by joe in distro a, but in distro b not be able to access the fileWhat I have done in Debian and Ubuntu is to install with a user I will later ignore and add myself with the uid I want.

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What you do need to be careful about is the uid's that different distributions use for default. Mandriva starts users at 501, Debian distros at 1000. File permissions, etc are by uid, not name. So you can have a file owned by joe in distro a, but in distro b not be able to access the fileWhat I have done in Debian and Ubuntu is to install with a user I will later ignore and add myself with the uid I want.

 

Or do this:

 

chown -h -R user:group /home/user

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