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!

  • JulianEnglish
    2•3 months ago

    It depends on how you install stuff. Games on Steam or downloaded from online from places like itch.io can be put on any drive without issue.

    In terms of software though, native packages (deb, rpm) are gonna want to put files in various system folders, so it’s pretty much impossible to get those off your os drive.

    Other packaging solutions can help with this though. Appimages can be put anywhere, nix let’s you install to another drive, same with flatpak.

    And if you’re savvy, you could use docker to install system packages on other drives, although I wouldn’t recommend it.