I'm new to Ubuntu, coming from a fairly decent Windows background. I'm running into an available space issue because I can't figure out how to install stuff to drives other than the OS drive. Please help ...?
I have a Lenovo ThinkPad W530 with the following drives:
- 24GB mSATA card SSD (Named "Computer")
- 500GB spindle HDD installed in the secondary drive bay (Named "Programs")
- 1.0TB spindle HDD in a caddy where the optical drive used to be (Named "Storage")
My plan was to have the 24GB mSATA be OS-only; then the 500GB secondary drive serve as program/game storage; and lastly the 1.0TB drive to serve as file storage, picture storage, video storage, movie storage, all the other junk.
Apparently everything has been getting installed to the OS drive and now I'm down to 100MB left.
I've been reading about Ubuntu and playing with the OS for a month or so now and I'm having a lot of fun (it reminds me of the fun I had learning DOS as a kid) ... but my Googlefu is failing me in finding answers that are clear and easy to understand, or at all, to the following questions:
- How do I move programs from "Computer" to "Programs"?
- How do I install all new programs to "Programs"?
- How do I designate "Storage" as the default place for saving files to? (I tried to set it as the storage place for Spotify to dump local files to but got some weird sort of error I couldn't work out)
Is there a really good, dumbed-down, tutorial for Ubuntu total newbies to help me understand how drives work in this OS? Maybe something that teaches me how to do things I know how to do in Windows, but the Ubuntu way?
Lastly, thanks for any help I receive, in advance. I'm really digging this OS a lot and I'm finding myself spending way more time with it than Windows when I'm at home.
