Installing Ubuntu OS on SSD and install HOME on other HDD [duplicate]
Choose "something else" when Ubuntu asks, during installation, about the installation target.
You will be able to choose directly to install Ubuntu system root partition (/
mountpoint) to a partition on the SSD, and choose to install /home
on the regular HDD partition. You will be able to create, modify and format the partition in that part of the installation.
- Choose free space for the root partition on any drive (here /sda), and press "Add..." to choose size and mountpoint:
- Do the same for your HOME partition on your harddrive. Choose montpoint
/home
:
Check that everything is alright (e.g. make sure the "format" option is unticked for your Windows partitions) and proceed with partitioning and installation of Ubuntu:
To have /home
in a different partition from /
, you'll need to do this:
Make home the top-level directory on the partition you want to contain it.(on the Hard Disk)
Give the partition that contains home its own mount point. A reasonable name for this is home (unless you plan to use that partition for other stuff too)
Give
/home
its own entry in/etc/fstab
.Make
/home
symbolic links to/home/home
.
Another approach is to install ubuntu normally in the SSD then move home folder to HDD following this official article from ubuntu