I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 on 1TB HDD and have installed lots of packages and softwares. Now i've bought an 128GB SSD, I have few questions on how to partition SSD
and HDD
and how to move my current installation to SSD
.
I'm thinking to have /
and /home
on SSD, and store other files on HDD, so how can i partition SSD+HDD to have:
/
and/home
on SSD- have
/home/music
,/home/videos
,/home/downloads
,/home/pictures
on HDD - I have no idea about
swap
partition (should it be on SSD or HDD, actually its empty most of the time now), my laptop has 16 GBs of RAM
I'm planning to have fresh install of 14.04
on SSD (and i think i have to), so what is the best way to move currently installed packages to new installation ? i'm planning to use Aptik
for that, is there a better solution ?
Is preload
any good and gives performance boost when using SSD (i have 16 GBs of RAM)
Best Answer
You have almost the same setup as me. 128 GB SSD 1.5 TB conventional.
Here is how I would do it:
You will get something like the following:
copy the UUID of your secondary drive (mine is sdb1)
paste in uuid line without the quotes and add some fstab goodness:You may need to change the ext4 to something else if your other drive is formatted differently.
Check to make sure mounts properly
and see if it works.These can be done with user permissions, I would suggest you do this with empty directories: For example Pictures
Do this for any directory you expect to take too much space, for me it's Pictures, Music, Documents, Videos