Hate to Say I need to Dual Boot. Advice on Shared Partition for Windows 10?

[Kendoori]

Too much weird stuff going on for me with customer VPNs and Google Hangouts that is forcing me to think about Dual booting... I am heavy user of Google Drive and use InSync client to sync my assets to GSuite. At a local level, Google Drive is essentially my "Documents" folder. I am thinking of temporarily moving these files off to an external drive, and then shrinking my "Home" partition to make enough room for a new partition that I would use for Google Drive. Regardless of whether I boot into Windows or Mint, I would want to mount that drive. Best I can tell, the only way to reliably do this is with NTFS. I am experienced with GParted, so I was thinking that I would rsync the data to the external drive, then rsync it back once its NTFS... then Windows will see it etc...

Any feedback on this approach is appreciated...

[kc1di]

sounds plausible enough.

[powerhouse]

Sure you need dual-boot? There are plenty of alternatives:

1. VirtualBox for ordinary office web etc. applications
2. KVM or Xen with VGA passthrough for the demanding stuff (3D games, photo and video editing in a Windows VM)
3. VMware, if you want to pay for it.
4. Find a Linux-native application. Chances are there is one (or more).

Check out the Virtualization subforum here: viewforum.php?f=231