Lenovo Thinkpad and SSD

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Doug schreef op 05-06-2017 4:05:
> 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!

Don't do this; you wanted the root system to be on the SSD.

All of the installers I've seen allowed you to specify "mount points" 
while partitioning. That means that after you have made room on the 
Windows drive for your home partition, in the partitioner you have to 
select the mount point for the new partition you create there, and then 
select (or type) "/home" as the mount point.

Thus, you first create the partition, then select the mount point.

If the new system comes with a GPT partition table it should be easy 
enough.