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As the title says, this shows how to Install Two Linux Distros on a single HDD with a shared Home. Part 1 – Prepping the Hard Drive.
I will be following this with videos where I install Linux Mint and Pop!OS and they share a single Home folder.
This can be done with other distros, however I recommend that if sharing Home they be based on the same /”mother/” Linux. In this tutorial both are based on Ubuntu.
If you were going to use two differently based distros, say a Linux Mint was one and a security Linux like Kali or Parrot for the second, then I would not share Home and I would size the partitions another way. The distro that was going to be used for daily use and primary file storage I would leave at 32gb and give it the the Home partition to use. Having a separate Home partition makes reinstalling easier in the event of system problems.
Make the other Linux distro’s partition a bit larger to leave room for it to have its own Home on it. Say 64GB for a security Linux since you will be saving some but not a lot of files there. Both Linux distros will share the same swap partition so its size remains the same, equivalent to the size of RAM up to 8GB.
The remaining goes to Home.
I will be following this with videos where I install Linux Mint and Pop!OS and they share a single Home folder.
This can be done with other distros, however I recommend that if sharing Home they be based on the same /”mother/” Linux. In this tutorial both are based on Ubuntu.
If you were going to use two differently based distros, say a Linux Mint was one and a security Linux like Kali or Parrot for the second, then I would not share Home and I would size the partitions another way. The distro that was going to be used for daily use and primary file storage I would leave at 32gb and give it the the Home partition to use. Having a separate Home partition makes reinstalling easier in the event of system problems.
Make the other Linux distro’s partition a bit larger to leave room for it to have its own Home on it. Say 64GB for a security Linux since you will be saving some but not a lot of files there. Both Linux distros will share the same swap partition so its size remains the same, equivalent to the size of RAM up to 8GB.
The remaining goes to Home.
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