two bootable OSes on one SSD?
Brian O'Keefe <[email protected]>
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Hello all, I hope everyone is safe and secure these days. This weekend promises to be eventful one way or another so I'm holding on to the seat with both hands! I have an Asus laptop with a 256GiB SSD. I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on it and all is fine except for my own screw-ups, mostly. After I installed the OS I copied over from the 1TB drive I had been using. I only copied what I needed or used frequently, leaving the remaining data on the 1TB drive. Now I'm wondering if there is a way to partition the 1 TB drive so I have its existing bootable Ubuntu and cloning my currently used, the 20.04 OS at about 200GiB full, onto the 1TB drive in a new, bootable partition. Then I would choose which to boot if I want to use them for separate work. Also could I access the data from one partition to the other in use? I currently can either boot the 1TB disc from a USB connection or just mount it as a storage device and get the info I want from it. At the same time I could grow the 256GiB partition to 512GiB and have all the storage I need. Just a thought but intriguing and especially as I watch my remaining disc capacity on the 256GiB drive slowly shrink. Many thanks folks and I wish all the best for this year and this weekend! Brian -- _______________________________________________ nmglug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org