SSDs and HDDs

[Jason Sauders]

Hi there, Tony. You'd want to use advanced partitioning for this once 
you reach the partitioning menu during installation. From there you can 
select your SSD and add your swap and OS partition. I personally set up 
my swap partition to be around the size of RAM I have. Beyond that I 
just add an EXT4 partition. Just make sure you set its mount point to /, 
which is root. This is where the OS and all of your applications will be 
installed to.

With the second drive, i.e. the data drive you want to utilize as your 
home drive for files, you can simply add a partition to it (I use EXT4 
here also) and then set its mount point to /home.

For example, I have a 60GB SSD and 1TB data drive in my desktop. My 
partitioning scheme is roughly this:

/dev/sda (SSD)
/dev/sda1 - 8GB SWAP
/dev/sda2 - 50GB-ish EXT4 mounted as /

/dev/sdb (HDD)
/dev/sdb1 - 1TB EXT4 mounted as /home

I also make sure that during installation I set my SSD to be the boot 
drive. At the bottom of this partitioning screen you'll see this option. 
In the last... uh... well, countless installations I've done with SSD 
and HDD combos, the installation has set my SSD as the default boot 
drive each time, though that may be because I have a habit of placing my 
SSD in the very first SATA port on my motherboard with data drives in 
the following ports.

There are countless other ways out there to set up your partitioning 
scheme across your drives. The above is just what I use in my system.

Hope this helps!

-J

On 02/17/2016 08:04 PM, agents4jesus at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Recently, I built my own Desktop computer. I've been using an old HDD 
> and am planning to upgrade to an SSD. Owing to the fact that SSDs are 
> expensive, I am also planning to get a 500GB or 1TB HDD for files. I 
> want to put the OS and a few resource intensive programs (Android 
> Studio, Blender, GIMP, etc) on the SSD, but have my home folder and my 
> files on the HDD.
>
> Is there an easy way to do this? Is this something in the installation 
> process that I can set up?
>
> Thanks,
> Tony
>
>

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