Dual Boot System

[Edward M]

On 4/16/2014 8:49 PM, Javier Perez wrote:
> Hi
> I need some advice here regarding partitioning my home system.
>
> My home system is a triple boot system: Windows 2K, Fedora 20 and 
> Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
> I have three disks, one devoted to each operating system.
> The first disk has two partitions, one for the OS (win2k), the rest 
> for data to be shared while on the other OSs including my personal 
> directory
> The second disk has like 4 partitions (Fedora /, /boot, /home, /swap)
> The third disk has only three partitions (Ubuntu /, /boot, /swap)
>
> My plan is to get one SSD to keep the OS (both Fedora and Ubuntu). 
> Instead of keeping Win2k on a drive that I rarely use (just for some 
> games), I plan to virtualize the disk under VirtualBox.
>
> Given that both Fedora 20 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS use grub2, my idea for 
> partitioning is
> 1. One largish /boot partition, about 1 GB, to hold both the Fedora 
> and Ubuntu boot images.
> 2. Separate / partitions, one for Fedora, the other for Ubuntu, about 
> 25 to 30G each
> 3. Keep a /home subdirectory on each of the partitions on (2), but 
> link a "My Data" subdirectory to the filesystem under 
> /home/myusername/ through fstab. "My Data" would come from another HDD 
> (like 1 TB aprox). The idea is to keep the /home/myusername 
> subdirectories apart and not let them mix because Fedora and Ubuntu 
> save diferent data on the home directories, then have a subdirectory 
> with my real data common to both systems.
>
> Is this setup workable? Is there a better solution? I'd rather not 
> have to buy two SSDs
> because the OS take just about 50G and I still have a lot of free 
> space in that partition
>

        How about continue using your existing HDDs and install Fedora 
as the host OS and then install Ubuntu and windows
        as guests in VirtualBox? mostly a thought...:-)