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I'm building a PC with a 128GB SSD and a 4TB HDD. I want to move my media collection from smaller external HDDs (NTFS) back into my PC (ext4). There's two formatting options and I tend to prefer the second one. There's no dual boot with Windows so I won't need to access my media collection from Windows.

I could have my swap and root on the SSD and /home on the HDD. Root will take up all the space on the SSD after creating swap and /home will take up all the space on the HDD. My media stuff will be inside /home.

I was thinking that I might instead have /home on the SSD as well and use the HDD purely as a dump for my media collection. Large downloads will go to the HDD. This way the media collection will not be inside /home. This is pretty much like I use my external HDDs now.

Any recommendations?

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  • See my answer to http://askubuntu.com/questions/282831/do-i-need-intel-smart-response-when-installing-ubuntu – user68186 Jun 16 '15 at 11:03
  • Use the partition on SSD as a bcache caching partition of your home. This way you get unlimited space of the HDD ith the speed of the SSD. – solsTiCe Jun 16 '15 at 11:55

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I keep my /home on the SSD, but some directories under my user(s) are symbolic linked to /data disk. Like ~/Downloads, ~/Dropbox, ~/VirtualBox VM's, etc...

Because then all the cache directories of the user can be accessed quickly, and the 'data'-directories can't fill up the root suddenly. For example when you create a VM in Virtual box with 64GB disk for a test, suddenly the disk might be full.

Due to reinstalling my os every 6 months (to have a clean system and to learn), I started writing some basic bash scripts, that in the end, I just run command by command anyway, but it gives me a lead and I put reminders. All my favourite apt-get installs are in there, fixes, tricks and my directory creation. Following is a part of it

##after your hdd is mounted on /data let's say
# remind adjust /etc/fstab
MEMEME=$(whoami)
MYSECONDHOME=/data/home/${MEMEME}
sudo mkdir -p ${MYSECONDHOME}
sudo chown ${MEMEME}:${MEMEME} ${MYSECONDHOME}
cd ~/
mv Downloads ${MYSECONDHOME}
ln -s ${MYSECONDHOME}/Downloads ~/Downloads
mv Documents ${MYSECONDHOME}
ln -s ${MYSECONDHOME}/Documents ~/Documents
dropbox stop; sleep 5
mv ./Dropbox ${MYSECONDHOME}
ln -s ${MYSECONDHOME}/Dropbox ~/Dropbox
dropbox start
##... and so on for others
##... remind to stop services before moving their directory
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