Richard Owlett wrote: > I am not upgrading in place. > > I currently have Debian 9.13 installed on one partition with /home on a > different partition. > > I will install Debian 11.3 on a fresh partition and have /home remain on its > current partition. > > I'm aware of cautions about upgrading in-place cf > [https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html] > > Are there things to be aware of when using the same /home partition on both?
There are edge cases, but nothing major. For example, if you write lots of interpreted programs, you may discover that a Debian-supplied language has been upgraded -- say, Python 2 to Python 3 -- and some programs need to be fixed. If you have hardcoded paths to /usr/bin, note that you may have errors because those programs are now in /bin. It is possible, if you are careful, to share /home between different operating systems. Not just different Linux distros, but BSDs and other UNIXoids. -dsr-
