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Registered: 2019-06-23

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Partitioning question

This might be more personnel opinion but I appreciate any suggestions.

I want to dual boot arch and manjaro and have a separate partition for Documents and Music that both systems can access. Would I just create an ext4 and name it [whatever]? Do I need a file system on that partition?

I'm thinking :

Arch
   /root 100GB
   /home 150GB

Manjaro
  /root 150GB
  /home 200GB

Both
  /swap 16GB
  /Doc_Music  384GB (rest of TB drive)

Thanks for any suggestions.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,353

Re: Partitioning question

You will need a file system. I suggest a non-proprietary one that was *not* designed for operating systems originating out of the American Northwest.   Create a mount point (an empty directory) someplace like /home/share, or perhaps /share on both systems.   Then, mount that partition with the shared data on /home/share; perhaps by adding it to /etc/fstab on both systems.

Last edited by ewaller (2019-06-23 16:22:49)

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Registered: 2019-06-23

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Re: Partitioning question

@ewaller That's what I thought. I'll just ext4 and hopefully that will give me what I want. Thanks for the quick reply!!