How can I partition so that most of my data lives on the SSD, and only when I run out of space do I go to the HDD?
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I previously had an Ubuntu/Windows dual boot, with / in the SSD and /home in the HDD.
I decided to switch out Ubuntu for Fedora, and I made the mistake of not partitioning properly. It looks like /home is now in the SSD and my previous /home (and all the real data) is just in "Other Locations" (so basically a different partition).
Either way, what I would like to do now is the following:
- SSD:
- Should contain
/(and everything needed to boot). - Should also contain
/home. Or at least as much as possible.
- Should contain
- HDD:
- Should contain the Windows partition (already taken care of).
- Should contain the
/homeoverflow from SSD. This should only get populated if the SSD runs out of space, at least ideally. - The swap partition for fedora.
Is this possible? I don't see why it wouldn't be, but I'm not an expert by any means.
Also, I don't mind re-installing Fedora entirely and I actually prefer it since it'll probably be easier to partition and I haven't set up my settings/preferences in the latest install yet anyway.
Here's what I get when I run lsblk:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 111.8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 200M 0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2 8:2 0 1G 0 part /boot
└─sda3 8:3 0 110.6G 0 part
├─fedora-root 253:0 0 50G 0 lvm /
├─fedora-swap 253:1 0 11.2G 0 lvm [SWAP]
└─fedora-home 253:2 0 49.4G 0 lvm /home
sdb 8:16 0 1.8T 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 0 9.5G 0 part
├─sdb2 8:18 0 1T 0 part /run/media/username/76e469ef-7da2-4cd3-97f8-bdb1bd3b2a7e
├─sdb3 8:19 0 450M 0 part
├─sdb4 8:20 0 100M 0 part
├─sdb5 8:21 0 16M 0 part
└─sdb6 8:22 0 761.5G 0 part /run/media/username/C6FA5190FA517E1D
sdc 8:32 1 3.8G 0 disk
├─sdc1 8:33 1 1.5G 0 part /run/media/username/Fedora-WS-Live-27-1-6
├─sdc2 8:34 1 8.8M 0 part
└─sdc3 8:35 1 18.6M 0 part
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
- sda is the SSD.
- sdb is the HDD.
- sdb1, sdb3, sdb4, sdb5, sdb6 are all Windows partitions. Don't ask me why there are so many. Not sure if I did it or if Windows itself does it that way.
- sdb2 contains my previous
/homefrom when I had Ubuntu. - sdc is just the USB which has the Fedora installer.
At the end of the day, I would like to make sdb2 part of /home as well. And get the swap partition out of the SSD to avoid the wear and tear.
Furthermore, I don't mind manually copying files from sdb6 (old ubuntu /home), if necessary, by the way. There aren't that many files.
Please let me know if you need more information. Thanks for the help!
fedora partition
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I previously had an Ubuntu/Windows dual boot, with / in the SSD and /home in the HDD.
I decided to switch out Ubuntu for Fedora, and I made the mistake of not partitioning properly. It looks like /home is now in the SSD and my previous /home (and all the real data) is just in "Other Locations" (so basically a different partition).
Either way, what I would like to do now is the following:
- SSD:
- Should contain
/(and everything needed to boot). - Should also contain
/home. Or at least as much as possible.
- Should contain
- HDD:
- Should contain the Windows partition (already taken care of).
- Should contain the
/homeoverflow from SSD. This should only get populated if the SSD runs out of space, at least ideally. - The swap partition for fedora.
Is this possible? I don't see why it wouldn't be, but I'm not an expert by any means.
Also, I don't mind re-installing Fedora entirely and I actually prefer it since it'll probably be easier to partition and I haven't set up my settings/preferences in the latest install yet anyway.
Here's what I get when I run lsblk:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 111.8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 200M 0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2 8:2 0 1G 0 part /boot
└─sda3 8:3 0 110.6G 0 part
├─fedora-root 253:0 0 50G 0 lvm /
├─fedora-swap 253:1 0 11.2G 0 lvm [SWAP]
└─fedora-home 253:2 0 49.4G 0 lvm /home
sdb 8:16 0 1.8T 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 0 9.5G 0 part
├─sdb2 8:18 0 1T 0 part /run/media/username/76e469ef-7da2-4cd3-97f8-bdb1bd3b2a7e
├─sdb3 8:19 0 450M 0 part
├─sdb4 8:20 0 100M 0 part
├─sdb5 8:21 0 16M 0 part
└─sdb6 8:22 0 761.5G 0 part /run/media/username/C6FA5190FA517E1D
sdc 8:32 1 3.8G 0 disk
├─sdc1 8:33 1 1.5G 0 part /run/media/username/Fedora-WS-Live-27-1-6
├─sdc2 8:34 1 8.8M 0 part
└─sdc3 8:35 1 18.6M 0 part
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
- sda is the SSD.
- sdb is the HDD.
- sdb1, sdb3, sdb4, sdb5, sdb6 are all Windows partitions. Don't ask me why there are so many. Not sure if I did it or if Windows itself does it that way.
- sdb2 contains my previous
/homefrom when I had Ubuntu. - sdc is just the USB which has the Fedora installer.
At the end of the day, I would like to make sdb2 part of /home as well. And get the swap partition out of the SSD to avoid the wear and tear.
Furthermore, I don't mind manually copying files from sdb6 (old ubuntu /home), if necessary, by the way. There aren't that many files.
Please let me know if you need more information. Thanks for the help!
fedora partition
asked Mar 15 at 2:58
gjvatsalya
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You need to use LVM to create a linear array with PVs on the SSD and HDD.
– Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
Mar 15 at 4:17
I opted to not have the HDD as part of/home, but mount it on/media/sharedand move~/Music,~/Videosand/~Pictures(which take up most of my data) over to it, then add symlinks to them in my/homedirectory. This works quite well, since none of those need rapid read speeds, while most other data that needs to be more readily accessible can be on the SSD.
– Mioriin
Mar 20 at 6:14
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I previously had an Ubuntu/Windows dual boot, with / in the SSD and /home in the HDD.
I decided to switch out Ubuntu for Fedora, and I made the mistake of not partitioning properly. It looks like /home is now in the SSD and my previous /home (and all the real data) is just in "Other Locations" (so basically a different partition).
Either way, what I would like to do now is the following:
- SSD:
- Should contain
/(and everything needed to boot). - Should also contain
/home. Or at least as much as possible.
- Should contain
- HDD:
- Should contain the Windows partition (already taken care of).
- Should contain the
/homeoverflow from SSD. This should only get populated if the SSD runs out of space, at least ideally. - The swap partition for fedora.
Is this possible? I don't see why it wouldn't be, but I'm not an expert by any means.
Also, I don't mind re-installing Fedora entirely and I actually prefer it since it'll probably be easier to partition and I haven't set up my settings/preferences in the latest install yet anyway.
Here's what I get when I run lsblk:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 111.8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 200M 0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2 8:2 0 1G 0 part /boot
└─sda3 8:3 0 110.6G 0 part
├─fedora-root 253:0 0 50G 0 lvm /
├─fedora-swap 253:1 0 11.2G 0 lvm [SWAP]
└─fedora-home 253:2 0 49.4G 0 lvm /home
sdb 8:16 0 1.8T 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 0 9.5G 0 part
├─sdb2 8:18 0 1T 0 part /run/media/username/76e469ef-7da2-4cd3-97f8-bdb1bd3b2a7e
├─sdb3 8:19 0 450M 0 part
├─sdb4 8:20 0 100M 0 part
├─sdb5 8:21 0 16M 0 part
└─sdb6 8:22 0 761.5G 0 part /run/media/username/C6FA5190FA517E1D
sdc 8:32 1 3.8G 0 disk
├─sdc1 8:33 1 1.5G 0 part /run/media/username/Fedora-WS-Live-27-1-6
├─sdc2 8:34 1 8.8M 0 part
└─sdc3 8:35 1 18.6M 0 part
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
- sda is the SSD.
- sdb is the HDD.
- sdb1, sdb3, sdb4, sdb5, sdb6 are all Windows partitions. Don't ask me why there are so many. Not sure if I did it or if Windows itself does it that way.
- sdb2 contains my previous
/homefrom when I had Ubuntu. - sdc is just the USB which has the Fedora installer.
At the end of the day, I would like to make sdb2 part of /home as well. And get the swap partition out of the SSD to avoid the wear and tear.
Furthermore, I don't mind manually copying files from sdb6 (old ubuntu /home), if necessary, by the way. There aren't that many files.
Please let me know if you need more information. Thanks for the help!
fedora partition
asked Mar 15 at 2:58
gjvatsalya
1112
I previously had an Ubuntu/Windows dual boot, with / in the SSD and /home in the HDD.
I decided to switch out Ubuntu for Fedora, and I made the mistake of not partitioning properly. It looks like /home is now in the SSD and my previous /home (and all the real data) is just in "Other Locations" (so basically a different partition).
Either way, what I would like to do now is the following:
- SSD:
- Should contain
/(and everything needed to boot). - Should also contain
/home. Or at least as much as possible.
- Should contain
- HDD:
- Should contain the Windows partition (already taken care of).
- Should contain the
/homeoverflow from SSD. This should only get populated if the SSD runs out of space, at least ideally. - The swap partition for fedora.
Is this possible? I don't see why it wouldn't be, but I'm not an expert by any means.
Also, I don't mind re-installing Fedora entirely and I actually prefer it since it'll probably be easier to partition and I haven't set up my settings/preferences in the latest install yet anyway.
Here's what I get when I run lsblk:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 111.8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 200M 0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2 8:2 0 1G 0 part /boot
└─sda3 8:3 0 110.6G 0 part
├─fedora-root 253:0 0 50G 0 lvm /
├─fedora-swap 253:1 0 11.2G 0 lvm [SWAP]
└─fedora-home 253:2 0 49.4G 0 lvm /home
sdb 8:16 0 1.8T 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 0 9.5G 0 part
├─sdb2 8:18 0 1T 0 part /run/media/username/76e469ef-7da2-4cd3-97f8-bdb1bd3b2a7e
├─sdb3 8:19 0 450M 0 part
├─sdb4 8:20 0 100M 0 part
├─sdb5 8:21 0 16M 0 part
└─sdb6 8:22 0 761.5G 0 part /run/media/username/C6FA5190FA517E1D
sdc 8:32 1 3.8G 0 disk
├─sdc1 8:33 1 1.5G 0 part /run/media/username/Fedora-WS-Live-27-1-6
├─sdc2 8:34 1 8.8M 0 part
└─sdc3 8:35 1 18.6M 0 part
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
- sda is the SSD.
- sdb is the HDD.
- sdb1, sdb3, sdb4, sdb5, sdb6 are all Windows partitions. Don't ask me why there are so many. Not sure if I did it or if Windows itself does it that way.
- sdb2 contains my previous
/homefrom when I had Ubuntu. - sdc is just the USB which has the Fedora installer.
At the end of the day, I would like to make sdb2 part of /home as well. And get the swap partition out of the SSD to avoid the wear and tear.
Furthermore, I don't mind manually copying files from sdb6 (old ubuntu /home), if necessary, by the way. There aren't that many files.
Please let me know if you need more information. Thanks for the help!
fedora partition
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gjvatsalya
1112
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You need to use LVM to create a linear array with PVs on the SSD and HDD.
– Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
Mar 15 at 4:17
I opted to not have the HDD as part of/home, but mount it on/media/sharedand move~/Music,~/Videosand/~Pictures(which take up most of my data) over to it, then add symlinks to them in my/homedirectory. This works quite well, since none of those need rapid read speeds, while most other data that needs to be more readily accessible can be on the SSD.
– Mioriin
Mar 20 at 6:14
add a comment |Â
2
You need to use LVM to create a linear array with PVs on the SSD and HDD.
– Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
Mar 15 at 4:17
I opted to not have the HDD as part of/home, but mount it on/media/sharedand move~/Music,~/Videosand/~Pictures(which take up most of my data) over to it, then add symlinks to them in my/homedirectory. This works quite well, since none of those need rapid read speeds, while most other data that needs to be more readily accessible can be on the SSD.
– Mioriin
Mar 20 at 6:14
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You need to use LVM to create a linear array with PVs on the SSD and HDD.
– Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
Mar 15 at 4:17
You need to use LVM to create a linear array with PVs on the SSD and HDD.
– Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
Mar 15 at 4:17
I opted to not have the HDD as part of
/home, but mount it on /media/shared and move ~/Music, ~/Videos and /~Pictures (which take up most of my data) over to it, then add symlinks to them in my /home directory. This works quite well, since none of those need rapid read speeds, while most other data that needs to be more readily accessible can be on the SSD.– Mioriin
Mar 20 at 6:14
I opted to not have the HDD as part of
/home, but mount it on /media/shared and move ~/Music, ~/Videos and /~Pictures (which take up most of my data) over to it, then add symlinks to them in my /home directory. This works quite well, since none of those need rapid read speeds, while most other data that needs to be more readily accessible can be on the SSD.– Mioriin
Mar 20 at 6:14
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You need to use LVM to create a linear array with PVs on the SSD and HDD.
– Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
Mar 15 at 4:17
I opted to not have the HDD as part of
/home, but mount it on/media/sharedand move~/Music,~/Videosand/~Pictures(which take up most of my data) over to it, then add symlinks to them in my/homedirectory. This works quite well, since none of those need rapid read speeds, while most other data that needs to be more readily accessible can be on the SSD.– Mioriin
Mar 20 at 6:14