I have a ddsktop with Windows and Fedora and few other Linux distros already installed. I have a spare partition for the OS itself but have to share /home with the Fedora install.
How do I do this safely without formatting /home?
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Fedora Atomic Desktop (hence Bazzite) cannot be installed on the same drive alongside another OS. You must install it on a separate drive.
Since Bazzite is based on Fedora, why not switch to Bazzite altogether?
Oh, I did not know that it has to be installed to a separate disk. Then I cannot use it.
https://docs.bazzite.gg/General/Installation_Guide/dual_boot_setup_guide/
You can absolutely install Bazzite alongside another OS on the same drive, as I did. It’s not recommended, but it works fine. Just mount your shared /home partition on /var/home and make sure it won’t format it before hitting install.
I am not familiar with btrfs and subvolumes. Can I just go with old school ext4? This is a normal HDD and not SSD.
It suggests a separate EFI partition. I am a bit confused here because is it only w.r.t. Windows install or separate from even Fedora EFI? Hopefully I can share the same EFI partition with Fedora.
I am confused about the need for /var partition. I will read more and then follow up.
Yeah ext4 works fine. It’s just a mounting point. You’re not recreating the home partition, just using it.
About the EFI partition, I’m pretty sure you just need GRUB on it, and it should detect everything just fine. But I never triple booted so there’s that.
About /var, it’s because it’s fully writable. Dunno why they didn’t just make /home writable too.
There is one last doubt about /var.
I already have /boot, /boot/efi from my Fedora install. I have separate / partition for Bazzite. I want to share the /fedorahome which I plan to mount as /var/home for Bazzite too. Do I need a separate /var partition in addition to this or can I designate / or /fedorahome for /var?
