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I have a computer with two hard drives, one small, the other large.

I wish to install Xubuntu onto this computer with the operating system itself on the smaller hard drive and all of my data stored onto the larger drive. I would want the computer to operate 'seamlessly,' in other words, to have both drives mount together and to be able to go from one drive to the other just as though the computer had only one drive.

Is there anyone here who knows how to do that? I would need the mount points for the drives as well as the ability to create links to the data (on the large hard drive) within the Home page stored on the OS (small) drive.

Thanks for any help.

lhb1142
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Simple BUT THIS IS ONLY FOR LEGACY BOOT MODE

  1. While installing, select the Something else option or something like that (WARNING! The picture is to demonstrate. Select Something else, not in the picture)

Something else

  1. Let's do some maths.
  • First, call your amount of ram X, small drive is A and large drive is B.
  • Your swap should be in A with a space of 2X.
  • Your system, which is ext3 or ext4 should be mounted as / in drive A with a space of A-2X.
  • Finally, your Home folders should be created as ext4, mounted as /home in drive B at a space of B.

Now just do the installation like you would do.

diamondburned
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