Does 352.jpg actually exist?

I have had good success with one partition for / and another for /home. I don't
see any advantage to having other partitions, with the possible exception of
/var for people running web sites.

The file 352.jpg does exist, the delay in replying was because I
installed from scratch and setup as you suggested - it makes good sense
to me - I now have some 200 gigs of free space on that drive which is
what I wanted. Thanks for your advice and help.

Now if I was to install MINT, all I have to do is make one new partition
for root and tell it to use the home partition that was setup when I
installed Ubuntu as its home partition at the same time. Also making
sure that the new root partition is formatted. Am I correct in saying
this?

I think what you are suggesting will work. However, I'm not sure why you would
want both Ubuntu and Mint on the same machine, they are so similar. If that's
what you want, go for it!

I suggest Mint to friends who have never tried Linux. One reason is that they
can load the LiveCD, and play audio and video such as MP3s and Youtube. It
makes the evaluation a lot more positive.