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I'm a complete beginner so please bear with me.

My desktop has 500GB of SSD and 2TB of HDD - I want to dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu on it. I've installed Windows 10 so now I have ~260GB SSD and ~975GB HDD for Ubuntu. My RAM is 16 GB so I thought of using ~50GB for /, ~16GB for swap and the rest for /home (all on SSD).

I intend to use the HDD to store videos and whatnot. But I'm not sure which mount point I should choose for this free space:

Do I just create a mount point like /mnt? I was reading other threads about this but I wasn't sure if it should be left as free space during installation then mounted afterwards. I don't really understand 'mounting' to be honest.

  1. Set up your HDD to mount automatically on boot Easiest way to do this imo is through the gnome-disks GUI tool (to use it, just open a terminal - Ctrl+Alt+T, type in sudo gnome-disks and enter your password). Select your HDD, click on the cogwheels -> "Edit Mount Options...", enable "Mount at system startup" and choose a mount point (for example, /mnt/sda1 or whatever that device is identified as, or /media/user/DATA). https://askubuntu.com/a/1048871
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Easy:

  • / and swap on sda (your SSD)
  • /home on sdb (your HDD)

That way, your OS and the swap are on the SSD and your videos, documents, music are on the HDD.

Start with that until you know more and for the next install read this first

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