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[Tom <question79072@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #79072 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/79072

Tom proposed the following answer:
Since you 'only' own 1 drive at the moment then i would set it up like
this assuming it's the SSD

sda1 2xRam Primary Partition, 'file-system' = linux swap
sda2 10Gb  Primary Partition,  file-system = ext3 for /
sda3 large. Primary Partition,  file-system = ext3 for /home

This will make it easier to move the /home onto the new drive and then
edit the fstab and all that nightmare lol.  If it's the 1Tb drive then i
would do the reverse

sda1 large,   Primary Partition,  file-system = ext3 for /home
sda2 2xRam   Primary Partition,  'file-system' = linux-swap
sda3 10Gb   Primary Partition,  file-system = ext3 for /

This way you wouldn't need to resize the /home partition which is
fraught and desperately slow at the best of times.  Again this would
help because on the new drive you could do a fresh install then get the
programs list from synaptic and magically your new install would be just
like the old one without all the fuss of the endless tweaking that we
tend to do with a new 'toy' ;)

Anyway, i'm sure everyone else has their own suggestion for what's
'best'.  There is only 1 'right' way and that's your own.  Windows gives
freedom from choice.  Linux offers freedom of choice.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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