Installation on SSD with all apps like Steam installed on a separate HDD

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I wanna install OS on the SSD and all the other software/apps on the hard drive(1TB HDD). During installation I have seen option in manual partitioning to select which drive to be assigned to what like /opt , /var , /home etc. But was unsure how to set this up and the apps get installed in which section.

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Basic system apps you should install on SSD anyways. If you will mount /home to the HDD partition, all your personal files/configurations, it may slow down your system.

  1. Create partition on HDD
  2. Assign partition to /opt and format it in ext4
  3. Assign root / directory to SSD partition and format it in ext4
  4. If you have EFI mode turned on assign your EFI partition to /boot/efi and do not format it if you have Windows alongside (its ~100MB FAT partition)
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this is only for games , on a separate HDD ?

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I will try out this method and see

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Primarily Yes

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if you have steam client installed
you will see that option in pref ( file > parameter > download > directory)
you have here the path like /home/ < user > /.local/share/Steam

you can add other path but be very careful , this partition will be an extend of you /home/ user
you should also use save and restore to migrate your old path partition to new path partition

so , first create partition on separate HDD with /game ,
do sudo chown on the disk
get UUID ( sudo lsblk -fs )
add it to /etc/stab
and reboot

check with any test file on /game ( create , uptade , suppress )

after launch Steam Client and use parameter and files options for save restore
add the path to downloads ,
then backup old path , restore to new path then suppress old path

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This is a lot easier than i originally thought.

Thanks a lot!

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