[03:27] <head_victim> compacthack: From the research I did into them (but never ended up affording one) there really shouldn't need to be lots of setup needed for recent ssd drives as most of the firmware is pretty good at wear levelling, etc already.
[03:28] <head_victim> Doing a standard install and just manually setting up partitions should be pretty easy as well to get your home on a separate drive.
[03:29] <head_victim> That being said, my entire / partition is currently only 7.76GB so you could probably fit /home on as well and then set up a spinning HD for media or something.
[03:31] <compacthack> Thanks head_victim, that sounds like a good idea, / on SSD too, and just move /music /videos /documents to the spinning HD. Have been waiting for 120GB to drop below the magic $100 point, and it did last week, couldn't resist!
[03:32] <head_victim> Yeah that way all the stuff most programs access for settings are all still sitting on the SSD in /home
[03:33] <head_victim> I'm no expert so feel free to do your own research but that's the conclusion I got to when I investigated it about 6 months ago.
[03:34] <compacthack> Makes sense to me, as a lot of programs and program data is intalled into /home, I'm just googleing to find how to define location of the /music etc
[03:35] <head_victim> Ah, I just partitioned a new disk, set a mount point and manually put all my music and data there and set it up to automount in fstab
[03:35] <head_victim> I have a 500GB for / and /home and a 2tb for random junk
[03:36] <compacthack> does that then map to folder shortcuts in Nautilus?
[03:36] <head_victim> No, but you can set up your own bookmarks in nautilus
[03:37] <compacthack> Ah, I see, easy!, thanks for that
[03:37] <head_victim> No worries :)
[03:38] <compacthack> Now just to work out how much required for a bare bones windows and steam + couple of games, I wish they'd hurry up and release steam for linux, not like I'm a gamer at all but thats the only reason to have a xp partition
[03:40] <head_victim> Just look at the size of the partition now, that will give you some indication.
[03:40] <head_victim> Probably 40gb or so I'd imagine.
[03:42] <compacthack> I must have something else in there than steam, sitting at 96gb used of 300gb. Time for a fresh install
[03:43] <head_victim> Depends on how much other stuff for web browsing, etc you have sitting there as well I guess. It's been a long time since I actually was responsible for a windows install.
[03:44] <compacthack> Me too, have to find my install disc