Lenovo Thinkpad and SSD

[Doug]

On 06/04/2017 08:32 PM, Phil wrote:
> I've taken the advice offered and ordered a Lenovo Thinkpad T420 plus a 120Gb SSD. I expect these to arrive during the next seven days or so.
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> In the meantime I'm wondering how I might install the OS on the SSD and place my home directory on the HDD. I have Gparted on a DVD so I can easily shrink the Windows partition and create a home partition of say 50Gb. My question is: how will I make the installer aware that I have my home directory on the HDD? The default action is to install the lot on the one disk drive.
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Well, you are going to shrink the Windows partitions. Then make two new 
partitions in the extended area of the drive, format them to ext4, and 
partition them to / and /home. They will
be called /dev/sda5 and /dev/sda6. Make a swap partition, /dev/sda7. Put 
your new Linux system on the new partitions. (Some installs don't 
recognize separate / and /home, and you'll
wind up with the whole system on /dev/sda5.) C'est la vie!

--doug