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I have just purchased a new Dell laptop which is to become my travel laptop with Kubuntu installed. I initially purchased it with a 512Gb M.2 SSD, but as it had a slot for a second M.2 SSD, I installed a 1Tb drive.

Now, what I was hoping to be able to do was, during the installation process I set up the EFI, / and SWAP partitions on the 512Gb drive, but as these partitions do not consume the whole drive, I wanted to make the remainder my /home partition and carry (merge/span) this across to the 1Tb drive.

Is this possible, but more importantly, wise?

Thank you

lloydc61
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There are few different things you could do:

  • Switch /home over to your new drive (probably the best idea)
  • If you set up LVM during install, add the new drive as a physical volume (PV) to your existing volume group (VG). Then create a new logical volume (LV) for /home.

This is the exact use case for LVM: you have an abstract idea of a storage pool that can map to multiple drives but you, the user, don't care about which drive your data is on. The downside here is that if either drive fails, you lose your data.

Brian Turek
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