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[ubuntu] Disk sharing in Linux

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http://ubuntuforums.org – I use multi-boot (dual-boot) to install more than one copy of Ubuntu onto a drive. This serves different purposes with respect to managing changes to the base operating system. Since both instances of the operating system are used to process the same data I have created additional partitions just for that purpose. This has been working pretty good if I use exactly the same version of Ubuntu (in this case Ubuntu Server 10.04). However, I'd now like to migrate to Ubuntu Desktop. For now Version 10.04 would be fine. Both Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Server have the exact same underlying softwa (Hardware)

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