quick question, how to install applications like opera or steam in a different location? i believe some apps are installed in /usr/ and some are installed in /home. i'm installing arch again and i'm giving bspwm a go. i have a 250gb ssd and a 1tb hdd. root on ssd and home on hdd. ofcourse i want to mount my applications on my ssd insteas of my hdd.
/usr/* would be on your SSD. Only everything in /home/* would be on your HDD.
i want every application on my ssd, what to do?
I would suggest putting /home on your SSD as well. The reasons being that that your steam games will be installed under /home by default and a lot of configuration files are stored under /home. I would then put things like your Documents, Music, Picture, and Video collections on the hdd.
thats is maybe the right thing to do, but when i look in my home folder there arent many folders. well almost no folder except a download, drobox and desktop folder. there are some .config files but no applications. i found some bas files which can be some nasty writes on a ssd nut indont know if its that bad for a ssd. i think im gonna buy a 512gb ssd this summer for /home because the hdd is making a weird sound.
I guess you could have /home on your SSD but if you have a lot of Steam games it'll fill up your SSD.
sadly that's true. i have a partition on my ssd (150gb) for stuff that needs to be on my ssd. i have a folder on it but i can't add it to steam libary. you need root for that and you can't run steam as root. what to do know?
If you are willing to put your Steam games on your 1tb you could mount the HDD to something like /media/HDD and then run "ln -s /home/$USER/.steam /media/HDD" That would create a symlink from your .steam folder to the 1tb. The Steam application would still be on your SSD but configs and games would be on the 1tb.
An entire SSD for just / is a huge waste of space for something that will never grow bigger than 25 GB, and that's really pushing it.
What you can do is the following: you make / on the ssd, say 30 GB, then you make a bcache volume of say 16 GB on the ssd, and the rest of the ssd and the hdd go in a storage pool. Easy to do with either LVM or with something like btrfs, which gives more performance and features on modern distros like arch.
End result: ssd-like performance on your complete storage lol
well. i need applications and games on my ssd. all the writes on my hdd. atm i got this
ssd: boot, root, ssdfiles partition (steam folder but steam needs to be in home -_-)
hdd: var, tmp, home
can i make 2 /home partitions? one on hdd and one on ssd for one user? and do you know where applications are isntalled?
everything is ext4 and i use trim on my ssd.