alexchamberlain
May 12th, 2010, 10:15 AM
Hi,
I'm new to Linux and Ubuntu, so if this question is obvious, I apologise.
I want a quiet system, which boots quickly and doesn't cost the earth to build or run; don't we all? Anyway, I was planning on building my own PC with two hard drives:
A solid state drive, which is relatively small to store the OS and essential programs.
A normal hard drive for everything else.
I understand Linux stores everything under a single root directory, rather than partition-based drives used by Windows. My question is this: can I choose which drive each directory is stored in? For instance, I want to store /boot and /etc on the solid state, but /home and /usr on the normal hard drive. Furthermore, I understand I could use separate partitions for each directory, then mount them, but that doesn't seem very flexible. Would anybody disagree with this strategy?
Furthermore, is there anything else software-wise I can do for a quick boot?
Thanks,
Alex
I'm new to Linux and Ubuntu, so if this question is obvious, I apologise.
I want a quiet system, which boots quickly and doesn't cost the earth to build or run; don't we all? Anyway, I was planning on building my own PC with two hard drives:
A solid state drive, which is relatively small to store the OS and essential programs.
A normal hard drive for everything else.
I understand Linux stores everything under a single root directory, rather than partition-based drives used by Windows. My question is this: can I choose which drive each directory is stored in? For instance, I want to store /boot and /etc on the solid state, but /home and /usr on the normal hard drive. Furthermore, I understand I could use separate partitions for each directory, then mount them, but that doesn't seem very flexible. Would anybody disagree with this strategy?
Furthermore, is there anything else software-wise I can do for a quick boot?
Thanks,
Alex