Share Home between 2 releases

[Colin Law]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 at 12:32, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> Gosh. Well, FWIW, my spare/testing T420 has a 250GB SATA SSD and (so
> far) nothing else.
>
> I think I have:
>
> [Small DOS partition ½GB]
> [Windows reserved, ¼GB]
> [Windows C: 64GB]
> [Extended
>   [Ubuntu root 32GB]
>   [Ubuntu home 64GB]
>   [Shared data 110GB]
>   [Linux swap 8GB]
> ]
>

Certainly if you do have multiple boots and want to share home then a
partition is the way to go.  I have a separate machine I use for
trying new installs so I don't need to do that.

By Gosh, did you mean that is a lot of space to use?
I have
17GB of a lifetime of photos
16 GB of backups of other other systems
15 GB of apps - Android,  Go (8GB!), Arduino etc
13GB for Steam, mostly an RC Flight simulator
10GB Videos
8GB .cache (that could be tidied up no doubt)
8GB Downloads (ditto)
and so on.

I want to try running Windows in a VM for Fusion 360 but I haven't got
room for a VM.

Colin