Connecting my two installs of minecraft?

I have a dual-boot PC, one has windows and one has Linux. They both have minecraft, and I've like them to share the same savegame/server data.

Is this possible, and if so how do I set it up?

Solution 1:

You can use pendrive to hold savedata, you can use Dropbox, or make a symlink to the windows partition on Linux.

For example:

ln -s /mnt/windows/Users/Pureferret/.minecraft/saves ~/.minecraft/saves

Solution 2:

I know a method with the new launcher which works both ways.

1. Boot into LINUX and start minecraft.
2. Edit the profiles to point to the windows hard drive (Ex: from ~/.minecraft/saves to C:/Users/Username/Appdata/Roaming/.minecraft/saves) 3.Save the profile
3. ...
4. Profit.

Just a little note: If you use the grub bootloader and you leave windows hibernating, then boot linux you cannot play your saves. I don't know why you would do that, but i just happened to forget windows was on and boot Ubuntu this morning. I had trouble making the windows path from earlier because Ubuntu refused to see the windows partition.