I am installing Ubuntu and used to Windows, so I will make the comparisons to it.
I have a SSD and an HDD.
In windows I would install the OS on the SSD (making it C drive) and put all my games and movies on the HDD (as the D drive).
What's the equivalent in Linux? Mount the SSD as root (/) and the HDD as... what? Does it even need a mount point or can I just use it as /dev/sdc3? What even is a mount point? Can I do it later?
The options are:
- /
- /boot
- /home
- /tmp
- /usr
- /var
- /srv
- /opt
- /usr/local
4 Answers
Drives aren't labeled like Windows in Linux. You can create separate partitions and/or drives for each folder (directory) or you can stack them under "root" /.
Any folder you don't allocate in a separate partition will by default be under the / folder as if you had a C: drive with \ folder.
I set up with HDD in anticipation of getting a 256 or 500GB SSD soon. Here is what I would do with your layout.
SSD:
1 fat32 /boot/efi 380 MiB
2 ext4 / 24GB
3 linux swap 8GB (optional)
4 ext4 /home remainder of drive
HDD:
1 ext4 /other (whole drive)
-or-
1 ext4 /games (your size choice) 2 ext4 /movies (remainder of drive)
I hope this helps.
4In Linux, drives aren't X:, drives are "mounted" in folders. Instead of using D:, you'll use whatever folder you mount the drive on.
What I ended up doing was mounting the hard disk as /hdd.
Now I would probably mount it as /home under the impression that most bulky files (music, videos, and games) would likely be under /home/<your_name_here>/<your_media_type> (e.g., /home/Jackson/Games). This is usually the default place so I wouldn't need to bother doing anything extra like moving them to /hdd/Games.
A caveat to this is that I personally would not need any of these things to be read/written to the disk quickly, if I did then I would want them to be on the SSD, not he HDD, so I would use a different scheme. For example, if I only had a very small number of games or I had a huge SSD I would probably put them on there. Another thing that comes to mind is high definition video editing, it's sort of the go-to example of something that needs SSDs. Of course I still could make a folder /ssd, but I think you get the idea.
you can use gparted during the live session making a new primary NTFS partition for your data[games, movies .. etc] and when you boot up your distro, you'll find your new partition attached to a file in the path /media/your_username
