Here is a tip you should consider adding to your Linux tutorials for dual booting, if you creat...

[G+_Luke Militello]

Here is a tip you should consider adding to your Linux tutorials...for dual booting, if you create a separate partition formatted using a filesystem that Windows can also read, say NTFS, you can mount it as "/share" (or whatever you want) in Linux as well as map it as "S:\" (or again, whatever you want) in Windows. This allows you to easily share data between the two operating systems.?

[G+_Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ]

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[G+_Luke Militello]

One could even go a step further and move their Windows home folder into the new partition. Now on the Linux side, rsync your home folder to the Windows one (now on the new partition) to merge them. Then update the password file to the new location for the home directory.

 

sudo rsync -av /home/linux_user/ /share/windows_user/

sudo usermod -d /share/windows_user linux_user

 

This would ensure, by default, that saved documents would go to this new partition. Also isolating your data from both operating systems should you ever need to reinstall. As I am sure you know, this is a good practice regardless. The only downfall is system level files would be displayed in the opposite OS; Windows hidden files will display in Linux and vice-versa. To the savvy, this is not an issue, but for others, you could get creative with filters to combat this behavior. This might be a bit much for people new to Linux, however I just figured I would elaborate a bit on it.