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Thinking of building a new PC with a small (100Gb) SSD and a larger (1TB+) spinning metal hard drive. Will Focal's installation utility allow me to put grub and the boot files on the SSD, and /var, /etc and /home on the regular hard drive? I've only ever take the default installation so I'm not familiar with everything it can do...

Jaime
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  • You may find this answer useful. – user68186 Jul 15 '20 at 19:09
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    Go ahead and install everything on the SSD. Test the system. If everything is okay, then move the /home directory to HD as explained in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving – FedKad Jul 15 '20 at 19:43
  • Thank you for the quick responses. My logic regarding /etc and /var is that lots of customizations take place in those two filesystems whereas / and grub are relatively static beyond periodic updates. – Jaime Jul 15 '20 at 19:50
  • Not sure how it helps to put boot on a SSD if you put everything it loads on a HDD. I put root on a SSD and home on a HDD and that works okay. – C.S.Cameron Jul 16 '20 at 03:55
  • Mostly because I want the files on the SSD to be pretty static, whereas the files on the HDD are more likely to be updated more often, that's all. – Jaime Jul 17 '20 at 01:06

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