Hi all, I’ve had a trawl around but can’t quite find the answer I’m looking for. I’m currently on Windows with 5 separate physical storage drives with different purposes - OS, games, media, apps, random bullshit.

I’ve been trialling Linux on and off for ages and I think I’ve settled on Garuda for now. I’d like to have a similar style of separation under Linux if possible - in case I fancy a change of distro etc.

I’m assuming I can just leave my media drive as just a drive. My understanding is that apps/games are installed in the /usr/bin folder?

Is it possible or even worthwhile specifying a /usr/bin/apps and /usr/bin/games folder and pointing each folder to their respective drive? Or as both drives are the same make/model would it just be better to use them both as a single virtual volume?

Thanks in advance!

  • bloodfart
    11·
    3 months ago

    You can. Someone else mentioned fstab and that’s how you’d do it.

    Seems like a lot of work though.

    Why are you doing things like that?

    I can think of a couple of possible reasons:

    Space. You just don’t have a big enough single disk to install all the games and media and stuff.

    Performance. You might have a fast drive or interface to connect a drive to that’ll make things run quicker.

    Plausible deniability: disconnect the games and porno drive and the work from home spyware can’t detect them.

    Personal preference: all the porno is in its proper place, all the games are tucked away on their block device. Gods in his heaven.