I'm going to make a dual (or more) boot setup to allow an extended look at two or more flavors of Ubuntu. I typically set /home in its own partition. It would be convenient to have the same partition as /home for all installations. I'll be using a single drive. How practical is this?
I can foresee difficulty if the same programs are installed in separate instances. Is there a practical way to link most storage space in /home across all instances but keep settings separate?
/home
for more than one installation. If you want a shared partition, it makes more sense to just create a partition for that purpose and store your files there instead of/home
. Keep your/home
on the root file system for each installation. Nothing is forcing you to keep your Documents in~/Documents
and your pictures in~/Pictures
, etc