[ale] One home directory

[Chris Fowler]

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 13:18 -0400, Mindspring wrote:
> Chris,
> I think creating a Data directory on a nfs or samba share and having  
> each machine mount that directory as a subdirectory of your home dir  
> would be a good solution.  Backing that Data dir up to a USB key would  
> then be good.  I've been thinking about this for quite a while since  
> we have multiple distros that have unique login hidden home dir files  
> that only work for that distro.  So, we have multiple home dirs on our  
> file server, but people store all their data in just one place on the  
> file server.  I just backup the fileserver to catch everything that  
> people care about.

The only problem here is that I only use my laptop outside the office.
It might just be prudent to create a directory under home called 'Data'
then have a symbolic link /media/KINGSTON -> /home/cfowler/Data