Keeping preferences and similar stuff (e.g. password files, bookmarks) in sync between two different Linux distributions (unison)

First published March 6, 2007 • Last modified on July 18, 2026 • 1 min read • 85 words I use unison to keep my kwallet syncronized between SuSE Linux 9.3 and 10.0. Of course one can use the same /home partition for both distros, but this can cause trouble due to differences in the program versions. Thus I only share /home/user/Documents among the distros and have separate /home/user/.preference files, some of which I syncronize during shutdown.This is the /home/user/.unison/shared_resources.prf file:jeltsch@michael-laptop:~/.unison> more shared_resources.prfroot = /home/jeltsch/.kde/share/apps/kwalletroot = /suse10/home/jeltsch/.kde/share/apps/kwalletinclude default auto = trueAnd this is the command to syncronize the directories non-interactively:unison -ui text -batch shared_resources