HowTo: Create and Use a Separate Data Partition

[m654321]

Hi gold_finger,

This is to confirm that I tried your advice of 4th April in this thread on how to create & use a separate data partition for my dual boot set up (LL 1.0.8 with zorin 9) , and it worked! I used the symlink method for uniting both distros at a common data partition.  As a linux newbie that felt a real achievement, especially as I had to modify one of your lines of code!

In LL 1.0.8, the Terminal rejected the term 'Documents' in the following line:
ln -s /mnt/DATA/Documents /home/yourusername    (I didn't understand why you choose 'Documents' here especially as you had created several home folders in a previous line, i.e.
mkdir Documents Downloads Music Pictures Videos

So I changed it to..
ln -s /mnt/DATA /home/yourusername    (this worked)

I notice that when I boot up in either distro of the dual-boot, I have to go to the DATA link in /home and open it with administrator's password in order to access it, that is access is not automatic.  Otherwise it works really well.

Many thanks for this, gold_finger!

Kind regards
Mike