Article Summary: How to install Fedora Linux 44 across two disks
Article Description: I have a laptop with a hard disk (spinning hard disk, not SSD). It runs great with Fedora 44 (Xfce), but boot-time is really slow, so I’ve ordered an NVMe drive to put in it. This will actually be the new primary storage on the laptop, running alongside the hard disk. I will install Fedora 44 on the NVMe, and keep my /home (and probably /opt and /usr/local) on the spinning hard disk.
I plan to write an article about how I installed Fedora to use both disks: boot from NVMe and data on hard disk. I think there are a lot of readers out there who aren’t aware you can do this, so it will be interesting to read.
The NVMe will be here in about a week, I’ll install and write the article then. I’ll include images (screenshots if possible, photos if not) of the setup steps.
I can’t seem to move this on the kanban board, so I’m making a comment instead. The article is written and in the WP system. I think I correctly submitted it for review.
I just made a quick editing pass to improve the SEO score and tweak some of the styling so that the code sections render a little better with Fedora Magazine’s theme.
I changed “Fedora” to “Fedora Linux” in several places.
It is just a suggestion, but I would recommend using restorecon’s -v (verbose) flag just so that the user gets some feedback that the command actually did something.
I usually mention the nofail option when telling people about that /etc/fstab file. I would warn people that if any device without the nofail option set cannot be located during bootup, then the PC will hang and (probably) drop to a rescue shell. When using an internal drive like you are, the nofail option isn’t as important, but if someone wants to try something similar with a removable USB drive, then they should be aware of that “gotcha”.
Lastly, a Fedora user very recently wrote up a wonderfully detailed document about those storage identifiers that are used in the /etc/fstab file.[1] I wonder if you could sneak a reference to that quick doc (here) into your article just to give it a little publicity? I’m thinking it might work as a footnote along the lines of “For all the gory details, see here.”
Thanks for your edits! I made the other changes and applied the image that Richard provided. (Looks great, btw.) I submitted the new draft for review, I think it’s good to go.
