Can I share my home between a Mint and Ubuntu?

[Bo Berglund]

On Sun, 5 Dec 2021 18:56:14 +0000, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:

>You seem to be describing the sharing of the /home partition between
>multiple-boot (or concurrent VM) instances of Linux /on the same
>machine/. You said at the top you have two laptops. Did you want them to
>share one /home between them, or for each one to host two OSs?

I just mentioned that I have 2 laptops for context...

What I want to test is installing a second Linux on one of them in order to
evaluate usage between Ubuntu Desktop and Mint desktops (there seem to be
several to choose from). That would be with dual-boot.

So since I have a lot of media files in my home, which I do not want to
duplicate it seems a better solution to pull home out of the existing single
huge partition onto a separate partition so the system partiton can be shrunk to
a smaller size.
I also would then create another partition there for the home data which would
be shared between the systems (but not simultaneously since only one OS would be
running at a time on the laptop).

And of course a new limited size system partition for the test version of Mint.


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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden