Question #79072 on Ubuntu changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/79072
Tom posted a new comment: Hi again :) Programs get installed to / but Windows programs installed in Wine get installed to /home and i am not sure what happens in virtual machines. The question is less about where they are installed to but more about where do the read/writes happen? I think there are a couple of folders, such as the logfiles folders, that could normally be usefully placed on a separate physical drive from the OS, or even mounted into ram on a ram-drive. There is an old Tom's Hardware bench-marking/destruction-testing that suggested the multiple rapid read/writes (as happens with logfiles) could be 'slow' on an Ssd but i think things have moved on a lot since then and are improving rapidly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive#Comparison_with_hard_disk_drives Really tho i would keep things as simple as possible to start with and you're already considering options that are far more complex then you really need to worry about. Getting a new drive and dealing with fstab and chown is a bit beyond me, really not my area at all. However, i think that having a /home partition separate from the / means that an entry for it appears in fstab - so when you copy /home onto your new drive then it should be a lot easier to edit fstab to point at the new partition, the fact that the new partition is on another drive is a minor detail that sudo lshw -C disk can help you with anyway. (i copied that from the link you gave me) https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingANewHardDrive it's a lot less complicated than it appears and i wouldn't even start worrying about all this for the initial install. If you want to have a look at an fstab on a linux machine then try gedit /etc/fstab although other distros will probably use some other text-editor instead of gedit so just replace gedit with whatever the distro uses. Some other popular ones are; vim, vi, nano. Note that by not opening this system-file with SuperUser rights it's safer to have a look at because i'm unlikely to accidentally change something and then save the changes ;) Anyway, good luck and regards from Tom :) -- You received this question notification because you are a member of UF Unanswered Posts Team, which is an answer contact for Ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuforums-unanswered Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuforums-unanswered More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
