Currently, I am a Windows user who through another laptop already uses Linux and am ready to migrate my main laptop from Windows to Linux. I have been using Linux for almost a year now and am familiar with most of the functionality it provides; however when it comes to managing partitions/memory I have always been lax in understanding such a concept, including on Windows.
I want to explain my situation very carefully since it's quite complicated:
I have two hard drives. They are both 500 GB. Both hard drives serve a purpose under my current Windows installation in which the second drive serves as extra memory for anything like games, music, or else multimedia related and the first hard drive serves as the basis of the Windows installation. For obvious reasons, most of my games won't work on Linux: I would format my second hard drive beforehand. Wherefore, I want the first hard drive to be where Xubuntu is installed on and thereafter use the extra memory from the second hard drive as spare memory rather than something disowned/ignored by the new operating system. There is a problem though, and it concerns how I should get Xubuntu to access the memory on my second hard drive. How do I go about this? I don't really want to create partitions but rather Xubuntu to include the memory of my second hard drive. That way, my hard drives will behave as though they were literally one single hard drive with a total memory of 1 TB.
One solution I had was to use gParted and explicitly allocate the extra memory from the second hard drive, although I was not aware how. Already I am unsure as to what to do and am not willing to install Linux until I am absolutely clear as to what I need to do the moment I boot into my new installation. I do not want to boot into a Linux installation and find out that my second hard drive isn't being used at all; I want to find some way in getting Xubuntu to use my second hard drive so that it is able to configure the second hard drive and recognise it like the first hard drive. Infact, I would go as far as to say that I would install programs/multimedia on my first hard drive and have a /home folder use all the memory from the second hard drive. There are various ways to go about this, but I don't know where to start and it is indeed a gap in my knowledge herein which I seek to resolve.
What must I do to make the /home folder use all memory from the second hard drive, assuming that the first hard drive will be the sole hard drive for program/multimedia installation?
Thank you - sorry for the long post.
I want to explain my situation very carefully since it's quite complicated:
I have two hard drives. They are both 500 GB. Both hard drives serve a purpose under my current Windows installation in which the second drive serves as extra memory for anything like games, music, or else multimedia related and the first hard drive serves as the basis of the Windows installation. For obvious reasons, most of my games won't work on Linux: I would format my second hard drive beforehand. Wherefore, I want the first hard drive to be where Xubuntu is installed on and thereafter use the extra memory from the second hard drive as spare memory rather than something disowned/ignored by the new operating system. There is a problem though, and it concerns how I should get Xubuntu to access the memory on my second hard drive. How do I go about this? I don't really want to create partitions but rather Xubuntu to include the memory of my second hard drive. That way, my hard drives will behave as though they were literally one single hard drive with a total memory of 1 TB.
One solution I had was to use gParted and explicitly allocate the extra memory from the second hard drive, although I was not aware how. Already I am unsure as to what to do and am not willing to install Linux until I am absolutely clear as to what I need to do the moment I boot into my new installation. I do not want to boot into a Linux installation and find out that my second hard drive isn't being used at all; I want to find some way in getting Xubuntu to use my second hard drive so that it is able to configure the second hard drive and recognise it like the first hard drive. Infact, I would go as far as to say that I would install programs/multimedia on my first hard drive and have a /home folder use all the memory from the second hard drive. There are various ways to go about this, but I don't know where to start and it is indeed a gap in my knowledge herein which I seek to resolve.
What must I do to make the /home folder use all memory from the second hard drive, assuming that the first hard drive will be the sole hard drive for program/multimedia installation?
Thank you - sorry for the long post.