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spliting data between 2 hdds

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i have 2 hard drives, a 20gig and an 80gig i would like to make it so it forces all applications and other non system dependent stuff to the 80gig instead of 20gig leaving the OS room to expand w/o having to worry about how much space i have left

both hard drives are on the same IDE cable and are
/dev/hdf for the 80gig

and the 20gig is spread across
/dev/hde1, /dev/hde2, /dev/hde5

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Omegamormegil (omegamormegil) said : 		#1

Basically, what you need to do is decide exactly what you want to be on the 20 GB drive, and move everything else to the other drive, which involves changing the mount points for you folders.

20 GB is actually a generous amount of space for an Ubuntu installation. After Ubuntu is installed, most of what increases your used disk space is pictures, music, movies, etc., and all of this goes into your /home folder. To a lesser degree, newly installed software takes up space, but 20 GB should be more than enough for all your system files plus new software you will install. In light of this, you can probably just move your /home folder to your 80 GB drive, and change the mount point for /home in fstab.

An Ubuntu community guide for changing a mount point already exists, and can be found at this link: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MoveMountpointHowto?highlight=%28mount%29%7C%28point%29

For more information on how the Linux filesystem hierarchy structure works, partitioning and other related stuff, you can check out these helpful links:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LinuxFilesystemTreeOverview?highlight=%28filesystem%29

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/sect_03_01.html

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