Bazzite custom/manual partitions
I'm installing Bazzite on a PC with a small SSD and a HDD. I'd like to keep my
/home on the HDD and the / and everything else on the SSD.
The SSD is 128gb, previously the PC had windows on the SSD and games and other large files on the HDD. Would there be issues putting home on the HDD?
Looking at the manual partitioning for Dual Boot setups: https://docs.bazzite.gg/General/Installation_Guide/dual_boot_setup_guide/
Is /var/home the /home partition? So for me I'd create the /boot /boot/efi and btrfs with / and /var on the SSD and another btrfs volume with /var/home on the HDD and I'm done?
Also are the /var partitions mandatory? I spent all day yesterday trying to just create /boot/efi, / on the HDD and /home on the SSD and it kept failing on the post install steps with some kargs error.
Thanks in advance!3 Replies
Quite a lot of more system type stuff runs from your home folder. So putting it on a HDD will make e.g. steam itself load slowly and your machine will boot much slower.
So I think you'd be better off having the full system on the SSD drive and make a seperate btrfs or ext4 partition on the HDD for games and other large files rather that running the home folder on the HHD
So I had the time to mess with the PC today as well and I tried the following:
And it seems to work as expected. So that "manual partitioning for Dual Boot setups" is also valid/correct for normal usage, if you'd like a more custom setup.
As far as speed is concerned it seems completely fine for now, I'm sure it's not as good as having everything on an SSD, but at least I can just keep the defaults everywhere and install games to just
~/Games and I don't have to mess with custom libraries and custom paths for Lutris, Heroic etc.Interesting, I thought the speed would be quite bad. Good to know that it worked