Lenovo Thinkpad and SSD

[Robert Heller]

At Sun, 04 Jun 2017 21:05:28 -0500 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 06/04/2017 08:32 PM, Phil wrote:
> > I've taken the advice offered and ordered a Lenovo Thinkpad T420 plus a 120Gb SSD. I expect these to arrive during the next seven days or so.
> >
> > In the meantime I'm wondering how I might install the OS on the SSD and place my home directory on the HDD. I have Gparted on a DVD so I can easily shrink the Windows partition and create a home partition of say 50Gb. My question is: how will I make the installer aware that I have my home directory on the HDD? The default action is to install the lot on the one disk drive.
> >
> >
> Well, you are going to shrink the Windows partitions. Then make two new 
> partitions in the extended area of the drive, format them to ext4, and 
> partition them to / and /home. They will
> be called /dev/sda5 and /dev/sda6. Make a swap partition, /dev/sda7. Put 
> your new Linux system on the new partitions. (Some installs don't 
> recognize separate / and /home, and you'll
> wind up with the whole system on /dev/sda5.) C'est la vie!

For the installs that don't recognize separate / and /home, boot into single 
user mode (or use a live DVD), and rsync the contents of the /home *directory* 
created by the installer to the *partition* you created for /home (you'll have 
to mount it as something like /mnt/newhome).  Then clear out the /home 
*directory* and diddle /etc/fstab as needed to mount /home.  Then reboot.


> 
> --doug
> 

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