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Good day, I have a mechanical disk and an SSD, in the SSD I have installed the operating system ubuntu 19.04 and all the software. How can I install software such as wireshark and other applications on the mechanical disk since I am running out of space on the SSD?

Thank you

Napster
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You use the file /etc/fstab to decide which elements of your filesystem get stored on which storage hardware. In other words, you only get to choose which directories get stored on which disk.

Since many applications install files in multiple locations across your filesystem, you generally don't get to decide on an application-by-application basis. There are a few exceptions to this, like AppImages and Flatpacks.

For most folks it's simplest to migrate your /home directory to the HDD. It's often the biggest space-consumer anyway. For example, of the 26G used on my 30G SSD, 23% is my /home.

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