how to set my system up

[dykesy61]

as you can see I have been playing with linux for some years at all stages
I have now got to the point of using it for all my own work - great!
I recently got a new NUC box which runs very quickly under linux
the issue I have is that when I installed it, it has created one large partition acrtoss the whole (1TB) disk
what I want to do is add an M.2 drive and put the system on that and create a /home partition on the 1TB disk
if I start again , no problem as I use dropbox and save my accounts and so on, what do I need to do to get that to happen?
any help would be great
thanks
dykesy61

[kc1di]

Hello dykesy61,

Back up important data and do a reinstall. When you get to the partition page select something else and there you can set up the partitions any way you like.
when finished partitioning continue the install. Good Luck.

[catweazel]

what I want to do is add an M.2 drive and put the system on that and create a /home partition on the 1TB disk

What a waste of a perfectly good M.2 drive. At most you'll use ~32GB of it, which will leave you with a lot of unused space. You'd be better off putting a home partition on the M.2 with the OS, and linking to your HDD for files that you don't use too often.

[dykesy61]

thanks for those - is that all the system takes? In that case you're right - will do
cheers

[dykesy61]

so what do I need to do about having a separate drive for longer term storage?
once I have loaded the system onto the M.2 and then attach another drive what do I need to do?
sorry, not clear!
thanks
dykesy61

[kc1di]

Again when you do the install and get to the partitioning pages. select something else and partition your drives the way you want.
this page may be helpful to you. https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-partitio ... mon-system

[dykesy61]

OK I'll give it a go
thanks
dykesy61

[kc1di]

OK I'll give it a go
thanks
dykesy61

Let us know how you make out.

[AndyMH]

Agree with catweazel (nice to see you posting again). Install mint on the m2 drive, personally I'd create separate partitions for / and /home but there are advocates for having a single partition containing both.

once I have loaded the system onto the M.2 and then attach another drive what do I need to do?

Once you have mint up and running, you can mount your 1TB HDD wherever you want. The best way of doing this is by editing your fstab file (this lives in /etc and to edit the file you need root privileges - easiest way is to navigate to / in the file manager and then right click - open as admin). As an example, my main drive is an SSD, but I also have a 2TB HDD in the ultrabay of my laptop. This is mounted in fstab as:

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# mount point for HDD in ultrabay, added 3 feb 18, modded 22 oct with 2TB drive
UUID=085d40e6-75d8-4f70-af68-cf382cfe6d52 /media/Ultrabay ext4 defaults,nofail 0 2

I use this for local backup, but in the past I've used a separate drive for data which I mounted as /home/me/data, where you choose to mount the HDD is your choice.

This gives a reasonable introduction to fstab:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab