Advice for a newbie - Multiple drives setup
Advice for a newbie - Multiple drives setup
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!
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Thanks for the input everyone, I think I'll go with rolling apps and OS into one drive as that seems inescapable and using fstab to mount my games drive inside /home/USER/ with a media drive left as just a drive. That leaves me with my smaller drive for Windows and a spare OS agnostic drive for both OS's to access.
Have you considered some kind of parity system to protect you from data loss in case of failure?
I've got both cloud backups for important docs etc and nas for anything else thanks