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On 19/05/14 13:13, Eion MacDonald wrote:
I am currently triple (yes I know.. overkill and I will be looking into VMs shortly) Windows XP, Windows 7 and Mint 16. My partition table has:On 19/05/2014 12:39, Neil Winchurst wrote:My current distro is Xubuntu 12.04 LTS. I have tested the latest LST version 14.04 in VBox and it works fine. But I need to sort out my HD first. Here is a link to a screenshot of my HD. http://www.pamneil.com/temp/Screenshot.png As you can see it is fully allocated. sda1 an old version of Linux sda6 my current distro Xubuntu 12.04 sda2 another old version of Linux. Here is Plan A Stage 1 Delete sda1 delete sda2 Resize sda6 This should give me plenty of unallocated space. Stage 2 Install the new version as a dual boot with v12.04. This way I keep v12.04 so that I can check up on it as I need to. I do have a back up of my home folder on an external HD but this is to make extra sure. I notice that sda1 and sda2 are the only primary partitions. Can I assume that v14.04 will install as a primary and anyway does it matter? Can anyone tell me if this plan is sensible (or even feasible)? Any help gratefully received. If I am advised that my ideas are silly I do have a Plan B. Thanks NeilI do not know about 'sensible' but I would allocate as follows if two Linux distros At end of hard drive SWAP Two primary partitions 1) for first Linux root 2) for second Linux root Extended partition 3 made up of sub partition 4 /home sub partition of 4 partition 5 /home/1stlinux sub partition of 4 partition 6 /home/2nd Linux Reasoning: Then any of partition 1 or 2 which are independent Linux distros can be upgraded or removed or played with without fear of interference. Reason for sub home partitions: not all distros save sub menus to same sub file and classes can occur. (email; opt, usr problems. If you want email on a fixed place and you ALWAYS use the same system and IDs in both distros you could arrange a email partition which is shared, but this sometimes does not work I would reduce system to one distro and free space before loading the second one, but make sure you have copy of SuperGrub Live Linux to sort out problems if any occur as some distros do not load cleanly with another. This may work for you, but with such set ups you might find a search engine on both your chosen distro forums might help
/dev/sda1 - NTFS - Windows XP
/dev/sda3 - Extended Partition
/dev/sda5 - NTFS - Windows 7
/dev/sda6 - NTFS - Windows Documents
/dev/sda7 - NTFS - Video files
/dev/sda8 - EXT4 - /
/dev/sda9 - EXT4 - /home
/dev/sda2 - Linux Swap
Neil could you move the /home folder to sda2, and point both
installations of Linux to that partition as a shared home folder? That
would mean that you wouldn't have to remember which you had downloaded
files to etc as it would be available to both?
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