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Looking for some harmony between Windows 7 and Ubuntu in your dual-boot setup?
Here are a few ways you could make the tense OS situation a little more unified and copacetic.
What works for one doesn’t work for the other.
to another partition, one that can be read by Windows.
This isn’t a proper workaround.
Your program-associated configuration files and other user-related configs will not be in the same place for this setup.
This solves that issue by pointing both OSs to look in the same place for them.
Notice that we don’t have a separate /home partition this time around.
Update: you’re free to use more than four primary partitions if youuse GPT instead of MBR.
Open up terminal, and if this makes you nervous, just take a deep breath and relax.
It’ll be okay.
Prep Work
We need to install ntfs-3g, the driver Linux will use to read and write to NTFS.
If you already have it installed, it’ll tell you, so don’t worry.
Next, let’s create the directory where your partition will mount.
Spaces will create a problem when we configure it to automatically mount in the next few steps.
fstab
Now, it’s time to edit the fstab file.
First, we’ll create a backup, just in case anything happens.
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.backup
It’ll prompt you for your password, so go ahead and enter it.
and copy the UUID.
When you’re ready, click save and then reboot.
If not, check to ensure you got fstab correct.
See above to restore fstab from your backup, if you gotta.
you’re able to edit this to your liking.
Anything in your home folder itself will stay in /home/yourusername/, not on your storage drive.
As you’re free to see, my storage drive folders are a part of my libraries.
My storage drive letter is E: because my connection share is at D:.
If you have any tips, or perhaps a better setup, kindly share them!
