2010-01-12, 20:44
Sure. but do you really want to have 2 installations and reboot the system for each use case?
you can have as many partitions you want. But partitioning is not necessary. Ubuntu has rights management - so you can set up permissions for diferend folders easily. If you want to do some "Disk Quota" to prevent eating up your hd space by other users - partitioing is a good idea.
However in linux there are no drives like in windows - everything is usually mounted in the file system tree somewhere. So you can handle this by shares / mount points.
I would not install 2 differend systems for the reasons you mentioned. But there might be reasons for a multi - boot environment. e.g if you wanna play with 32 bit / 64 bit or other operating systems on the same hardware (like having Ubuntu, Kunbuntu, WinXP, Win7...) native on the same machine.
You can also use virtualization to achieve that and have in parallel running more OS with VMWare Player or so on the same machine at the same time. The sky is the limit (and of course the hardware you have)
By the way - a good Ubuntu set-up has at least 3 partitions : boot+root, /home for usser data and swap. I would recommend to have another one 4th for shared data.
The reason behind is easy. When you have to update / upgrade or fresh install your system your data remains untouched.
you can have as many partitions you want. But partitioning is not necessary. Ubuntu has rights management - so you can set up permissions for diferend folders easily. If you want to do some "Disk Quota" to prevent eating up your hd space by other users - partitioing is a good idea.
However in linux there are no drives like in windows - everything is usually mounted in the file system tree somewhere. So you can handle this by shares / mount points.
I would not install 2 differend systems for the reasons you mentioned. But there might be reasons for a multi - boot environment. e.g if you wanna play with 32 bit / 64 bit or other operating systems on the same hardware (like having Ubuntu, Kunbuntu, WinXP, Win7...) native on the same machine.
You can also use virtualization to achieve that and have in parallel running more OS with VMWare Player or so on the same machine at the same time. The sky is the limit (and of course the hardware you have)
By the way - a good Ubuntu set-up has at least 3 partitions : boot+root, /home for usser data and swap. I would recommend to have another one 4th for shared data.
The reason behind is easy. When you have to update / upgrade or fresh install your system your data remains untouched.
