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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Question regarding partitioning (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So, basically I'd like to replace the /home with different hard drives. I have a 4tb one that I'm using for videos, a 1tb I'm using for audio files and video games (not the actual game installed there but for example executables or ROMs), and a 500gb I'm using for texts and images. My idea would be to not have the /documents folder and so on and have a drive for everything. Can I do this?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You can move the default folders like "Music" "Photos" and "Videos" or whatever to any location you'd like. I personally have my /home on a small ssd and on a separate large ssd I have a shared partition with windows with all my other stuff. I mounted that partition to /mnt/Storage or whatever and just mapped all my stuff to that partition, like pictures to /mnt/Storage/Pictures