I use Ubuntu installed on a hard disk. My computer also comes with a tiny (16GB) SSD that I’ve another Ubuntu installation on. While a fresh install on the SSD worked great, this is too small to hold all the packages I will eventually need.

Is there any way to only have the core bits of the distro on the SSD, and have all the other packages I later install on the HDD?

I want this so I can have a fast boot (boots slowly using the HDD) and since I’m happy with the speed of apps as they work while now installed on my HDD, I’d like to keep using them off of it.

All idea welcome :)

  • @we_were_never_hereEnglish
    1•5 months ago

    The easiest way off the top of my head would be reinstall and manually design your partitioning so anything that’d benefit is on the SSD and everything else is on the HDD. You might be able to get away with / on the SSD and /home on the HDD, I don’t know what all you have installed or what amount of space Ubuntu requires by default. If you wanna go this route, I’d start your reading here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Partitioning#Partition_scheme

    • Poplar?OP
      1•5 months ago

      Thanks for the response :)

      The issue with having /usr/bin and stuff on the HDD then mounting it to the SDD is that both system software I want to using the SSD for faster booting and packages I install will both end up on the HDD. I need some way of only having non-system software on the HDD.