If using VirtualBox for some tasks (and running a different distro for those tasks, etc.), like FullScale4Me suggested, look into the directory sharing feature of VirtualBox. If the host system has your data partition mounted, you can configure the virtual machine so that the data directory tree is mapped onto the virtual machine's filesystem, for read/write access or read only. The effective result is that the contents of your data partition is there, ready to access from within the virtual machine. Note that I'm not saying either way of doing things is better or worse per se - that depends on the task at hand - and I'm just mentioning this in case you have a use case at some point that a virtual machine would suit nicely, but are steering clear of trying that because of the separate data partition.If not using an external drive for data, I personally really like using a separate data partition on the computer as it you can simply install or reinstall any distro and use symlinks to the data partition.
Statistics: Posted by Nokkaelaein — Sat Feb 03, 2024 12:10 am