Sharing storage area (linked to /home) between two distros?

[anthony baldwin]

Okay, I just backed my whole /home to an external drive, and

Now, I going to delete everything visible (important/not deleting 
.hiddenconfigfiledirs) in home, reduce the main partition to c. 5gb, 
make 2 other partitions, one of 5gb, install Linguas OS on it,
and the other partition will be the remainding 190ish GB of the drive 
(minus the swap), and will be used for storage accessible to both Ubuntu 
and Linguas OS.

Then I will copy everything I just backed up into that storage area.

I would try to share a /home between the two, but I don't think it will 
work with Ubuntu and LinguasOS (which is PCLOS based), considering that 
various app/configs that stay in home will need to be different for 
each, and permission, uid gid stuff between the two will be more 
complicated than I want to deal with...but, storage, that's not a big 
deal.  I will just automount the storage on both OSs and link it in 
/home/me for each.

Think that will work?

Is 5gb enough for the install of each distro, provided that literally 
nothing will be stored in /home, besides the usual .hiddenconfigdirs ?
And, a link in /home/me to the storage partition?

If there is a simple way to share /home between these two systems, I 
would be interested in learning about that.

thanks
tony



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