How do I reinstall LL safely in a win7/zorin/lubuntu/LL multiboot?

[m654321]

At this point, run following command to make sure his user(SamTheEditor) and group(SamTheEditor) show the UID and GID = 1001.  (It should if you were the only user account setup on that system.  Having same username, UID and GID as he's using on LL will ensure easier sharing of files between the two systems, especially if you've got a shared data partition to be used by both.)

Code:

id SamTheEditor

Gold_finger, according to your advice I've deleted the old SamTheEditor accounts in LL & Zorin, replacing them with sam-the-editor to avoid potential problems developing later, as you & Trinidad outlined.  I've set up a sam-the-editor account for him in Lubuntu, using the terminal. However, when I enter 'id sam-the-editor', the UID & GID output are not the same - what does this mean?...

Code:

happyfamily@happyfamily-X71Q:~$ id sam-the-editor
uid=1001(sam-the-editor) gid=1002(sam-the-editor) groups=1002(sam-the-editor)
happyfamily@happyfamily-X71Q:~$

mike