Dual Booting LL 2.0 with other Ubuntu (14.04) based distros

[m654321]

Gold_finger, the good news is that sda & sdb are now working cooperatively, with the OS files spread out between the two physical drives. With your help, I appear to have solved the problem I mentioned about failure to boot-up, following the LL's OS files being shared between the two hard drives.

The problem I had appears to be due to be me incorrectly using 'Y' in response to being asked to upgrade to the maintainer's newer version, instead of using the correct default option of 'N'. It now explains a lot of the instability I have experienced generally, since I  came over to linux in  April 2014.

I recommend that, within the installation guide, or even as a banner on LL's website home page, the use of default option of  'N' should be very clearly highlighted. I wonder how many newbies to linux have been tripped up with this inadvertent error?  In the link you sent me about this issue, I thought very much the same way as the person in that forum posting who had this very same problem - I assumed (wrongly) that the maintainer's version was Valtam's Linux Lite - the idea of a throwback to Ubuntu never occurred to me.

I have a question on the size for separate  /home/username  partitions for  LL & the other distro in a dual-boot set-up. Since all my usual folders will be in the separate DATA partition, I will, as you pointed out, only need small /home/username partitions. I noticed the files in the separate home appeared to take up around 60-70 MB, following a fresh install, so I set the size for each of the separate home partitions at 250 MB.  This appeared too small, as subsequently some items were missing on panel bar following boot-up.  Another time I used 1.8 GB, and this seemed to be okay. Maybe I should go for 5GB for as a safe bet, as I assumeg the amount of space taken up by config files in /home will increase over time. I have 1TB for sdb, so space is not an issue here.  What do you think?

Also when I create the separate home partitions, should they be named  /home/username  or  /home/username/    (slash also after 'username')
I know you don't use separate  /home  partitions, but I have found that the response of LL appears to be noticeably crisper/snappier with them, so would quite like to continue with this as long as it continues to work (!).