Dual Booting LL 2.0 with other Ubuntu (14.04) based distros

[m654321]

Gold_Finger, you said re. shared data partition...

Here is a tutorial describing how to do that:  https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/index...opic=203.0.  When using a separate data partition like that, I don't bother making /home a separate partition -- I just let it reside on the same partition as root.  If you decide to still make /home as a separate partition, just keep in mind that it doesn't need to be very big because it's only holding config files.

The above was to do with creating a separate /mnt/DATA partition to share between zorin & LL. I did this - it worked well using the symlink method.  However I have two internal hard drives on my laptop and would like to organize partitions in such a way as to increase efficiency in the way the two operating systems work.  The core of each OS will go on sda, while the /mnt/DATA and separate home partitions (i.e. zorin6/home and ll2/home) will go on sdb.

My question is this -  ...when I create the links from zorin & LL to /mnt/DATA, I assume should use the UUIDs of the separate home partitions on sdb, rather than the UUIDs of the core of the operating systems on sda? Also if I run a virtual machine (e.g. using Oracle Virtualbox to run Windows XP), will this automatically be installed on /mnt/DATA, or will it appear in zorin/home or ll/home?

PS. Yes, I found the config files on the separate home partitions for both zorin and LL only took up between 60 and 70 MB of disk space.