On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 16:38:59 -0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:

> > But actual partitions?  
> 
> Yes. Each with a separate Linux distro installed.
> 
> Perhaps you can do that with a volume manager instead of partitions
> (using partitions has worked fine for the past 20 years, so I've never
> looked into it).

Of course you can, and it makes adding and removing distros much simpler.

I've also done it on this laptop with btrfs subvolumes, a different
subvolume for each distro's root but a shared /home subvolume. All of
them on a dm-crypt device, so only one password needed whichever distro
is used.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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