Baalzebub
September 30th, 2011, 06:05 AM
Hello all!
Id like to say first that I'm slightly new to Linux in general. I like to consider my self a geek but I've always kept my knowledge to windows OS's. Well due to a nasty virus i received on my computer a few days ago i decided to take a head dive into Ubuntu 11.04 x64. I have watched a lot of videos and read quite a large amount of information considering I only installed this a few days ago. I do have some experience with Red Hat 5.5 my job had me go to a 2 week course where the gear we worked on used Red Hat on its admin laptops. Also, my english and spelling are horible, i will use auto-correct as much as possible and attempt to make this legible.
OK, now for my actual question/problem.
So, when I built the computer that I am currently running I was planning on running windows 7 (which I understood was 27GB) and SSD's were semi-new. So in my mind I found it ingenious to buy a 30GB SSD and install windows on it, and put all of my data on to a seperate D drive that is 1TB. I quickly relearned that this wont work, if you sit down for 5 minutes you'll see why it wont but I wasn't thinking too well that day i guess. So i have a 30GB Solid State, a 1TB internal, and an external 3TB.
As i did some research into Ubuntu i found out it is a very small OS so i installed it on top of my infected C drive. This worked great for about 2 days but im already down to ~340MB of free space. So i was sitting here thinking of 2 different things, I have never attempted either.
1) Can I download some form of RAID software and turn my 30GB SSD and my 1TB (internal) into a single logical drive?
2) Can i turn my SSD into a pointer device and have it point at the 1TB HDD for everything it needs except for swap, /, and maybe home?
I would prefer to go with the 2nd option, have it point at my 2nd hard drive to save everything onto and point at the 2nd hard drive for all data it needs to call on. I say i would prefer this because if i could (in theory from what i understand) boot into Ubuntu on the SSD (speed) and save its life a good bit by not making nearly as many read/writes to it.
My other option would to be to install Ubuntu onto the D drive and just boot into it every time i boot my computer.
I have my Ubuntu 666.10 (11.04 Satanic Edition [i love the theme!]) Live CD and i can easily put my GParted onto a CD. I run in classic mode not in normal because i instantly hated Unity.
Help me out here guys-n-gals!
Id like to say first that I'm slightly new to Linux in general. I like to consider my self a geek but I've always kept my knowledge to windows OS's. Well due to a nasty virus i received on my computer a few days ago i decided to take a head dive into Ubuntu 11.04 x64. I have watched a lot of videos and read quite a large amount of information considering I only installed this a few days ago. I do have some experience with Red Hat 5.5 my job had me go to a 2 week course where the gear we worked on used Red Hat on its admin laptops. Also, my english and spelling are horible, i will use auto-correct as much as possible and attempt to make this legible.
OK, now for my actual question/problem.
So, when I built the computer that I am currently running I was planning on running windows 7 (which I understood was 27GB) and SSD's were semi-new. So in my mind I found it ingenious to buy a 30GB SSD and install windows on it, and put all of my data on to a seperate D drive that is 1TB. I quickly relearned that this wont work, if you sit down for 5 minutes you'll see why it wont but I wasn't thinking too well that day i guess. So i have a 30GB Solid State, a 1TB internal, and an external 3TB.
As i did some research into Ubuntu i found out it is a very small OS so i installed it on top of my infected C drive. This worked great for about 2 days but im already down to ~340MB of free space. So i was sitting here thinking of 2 different things, I have never attempted either.
1) Can I download some form of RAID software and turn my 30GB SSD and my 1TB (internal) into a single logical drive?
2) Can i turn my SSD into a pointer device and have it point at the 1TB HDD for everything it needs except for swap, /, and maybe home?
I would prefer to go with the 2nd option, have it point at my 2nd hard drive to save everything onto and point at the 2nd hard drive for all data it needs to call on. I say i would prefer this because if i could (in theory from what i understand) boot into Ubuntu on the SSD (speed) and save its life a good bit by not making nearly as many read/writes to it.
My other option would to be to install Ubuntu onto the D drive and just boot into it every time i boot my computer.
I have my Ubuntu 666.10 (11.04 Satanic Edition [i love the theme!]) Live CD and i can easily put my GParted onto a CD. I run in classic mode not in normal because i instantly hated Unity.
Help me out here guys-n-gals!