[BozemanLUG] computer setup question

[Ren Wall]

If you decide on a complex partitioning setup you may want to simply prepare
your partitions in a live environment before running the installer. Some
installers have limitations in the built in partitioning tool, especially if
you intend to use an unusual LVM+LUKS setup.
With regards to where to put your home folder I would say keep your home on
the SSD and mount a partition of the HDD in your home folder specifically as
a target for games you do not want on the SSD. Most if not all game installers
and digital distribution platforms will allow you to specify an install location
and you wont be stuck having to put *all* your games on the HDD.
Additionally, if you use LVM you can leave some space on the HDD open for another
partition mounted somewhere else if your storage needs change later.

Ren.
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Friday, March 6, 2020 5:39 AM, Scott Dowdle <dowdle at montanalinux.org> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> > If I have a 120 GB SSD as a primary drive and a secondary drive as a
> > spinning platter drive, how hard is it to setup Linux on the SSD and
> > then move my home partition to the secondary drive? My thinking is
> > if I install only linux I would want the speed on the SSD. But
> > installing games using wine or proton I would assume they install in
> > my home directory and I am trying to think of the easiest way to be
> > able to install those games but not fill up the SSD. My thought was
> > if I moved my home directory and mounted it on the secondary drive
> > it would solve my problem?
>
> Most all distros, during the install... have a manual partitioning
> option. You can totally make /home be a partition on the second disk.
> If you only had an SSD and did the install... and then later added a
> second drive... and wanted to move your home... you'd boot into single
> user mode... mount your second drive, rsync /home to the temp mount
> point, mv home to old-home, and then mount the new disk on home...
> and then update your /etc/fstab. There are a few variations there...
> is the original home a separate partition or just on the / mount?
> I don't think it really matters how you do it.
>
> > My other option would be to dual boot between Windows and Linux in
> > which case I would install windows on the SSD and just dump all of
> > Linux on part of the secondary drive. This would be the easiest and
> > would allow my to boot into windows if needed.
>
> It's up to you but for games, get a MiSTer FPGA! :)
>
> TYL,
>
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