Lenovo Thinkpad and SSD

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 5 Jun 2017 11:32:25 +1000 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 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.
> 
> 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.

When the Ubuntu Installer gets to the point partitioning the disk(s), you can
select manual or manual guided. Select one of those options. You will be given
a selection of devices and/or partitions to chose from. Just select the
partition (or space to be turned into a partition) you want for the /home file
system, including what to format it as (ext4 probably) a mount point (/home).
Then go on to select someplace for the root file system and so on.  The 
installer will update the partition tables where apropriate. If the partition 
is already there, it will only need to format it (eg run mkfs.ext4)

Is the SSD an *external* drive or an internal drive? Most laptops *I* have
ever used (including the Lenovo R500 I have now) only support a single drive
internally. In my case, I have never had a use for MS-Windows and I have a
SATA SSD in this machine with only CentOS 6 on it (it has two partitions: a
/boot file system (ext4, /dev/sda1) and a LVM "partition" (/dev/sda2), with
the LVM "partition", broken up into a number of volumes (including /, swap,
/home, and some others).

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