The live OS you use to install your Ubuntu system has gparted available on it by default so there is no need to download anything else and there is no reason to fear its use, as you seem to.
Put your OS on sda1 in the usual way, then still in the live OS open gparted and create an ext4 partition on sdb1, label it DATA if you wish, though that is not really necessary but it does help when trying to remember which partition is which, particularly if you have many partitions to sort out.
Once the OS is installed and running you will find that you can not write to sdb1 as a normal user as it will be owned by root; to enable you as user to write to it you need to change the owner with command
Code:
sudo chown -R username:username mountpoint
You will need to set the mountpoint of sdb1 in /etc/fstab in order to mount it at boot time with a line such as
UUID=
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx /mnt/data ext4 defaults, 0 1
and you will find the UUID with You will also need to create that mountpoint with
Code:
sudo mkdir /mnt/data
As you see from this, it may be easiest to simply create a separate /home partition on sdb at install time, as suggested by oldred in post #4
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