I have 2 NVMe SSDs on my machine. The first one is fully and exclusively dedicated to Windows 10. The second one is fully and exclusively dedicated to Linux distros. I assembled the machine fairly recently, the motherboard is an Asus X570.
I installed Kubuntu on the 2nd one, it all works smoothly, I can choose between Kubuntu and Win10 via GRUB. My install was done without LVM.
My question is: how do I safely add more distros on the 2nd SSD? (such as Kali, Mint, Elementary OS, Arch, etc.)
Is it sufficient to boot via a live Ubuntu, run GParted to reduce Kubuntu's partition size, then boot via a USB stick and try to install the 2nd or 3rd distro on the empty partition?
in case it helps, here is the current output of lsblk:
nvme1n1 259:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─nvme1n1p1 259:1 0 512M 0 part
└─nvme1n1p2 259:2 0 931G 0 part /
nvme0n1 259:3 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:4 0 529M 0 part
├─nvme0n1p2 259:5 0 99M 0 part /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p3 259:6 0 16M 0 part
├─nvme0n1p4 259:7 0 300G 0 part
├─nvme0n1p5 259:8 0 200G 0 part
└─nvme0n1p6 259:9 0 430.9G 0 part
and the output of fdisk -l
Disk /dev/nvme1n1: 931.53 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: WDS100T3X0C
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/nvme1n1p1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System
/dev/nvme1n1p2 1050624 1953523711 1952473088 931G Linux filesystem
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 931.53 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 1085439 1083392 529M Windows recovery environment
/dev/nvme0n1p2 1085440 1288191 202752 99M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p3 1288192 1320959 32768 16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/nvme0n1p4 1320960 630466559 629145600 300G Microsoft basic data
/dev/nvme0n1p5 630466560 1049896959 419430400 200G Microsoft basic data
/dev/nvme0n1p6 1049896960 1953521663 903624704 430.9G Microsoft basic data
