I recently realized that since I don't game much anymore there's a lot a lot holding me to Windows, so I've decided to make the switch to Ubuntu today.
My computer has a 60GB SSD which is my boot drive, and a 1TB hard drive which I install applications/games on. With Windows, installing applications to a separate hard drive is childs play, I just change the location during the install wizard. However I don't know how to do that with Ubuntu. As far as I know if I just run something like apt-get install package
it will just be installed to its default directory, which would be my SSD since that's where Ubuntu is installed.
Is there a way I can mount directories like /opt
on my 1TB drive rather than my SSD in order for large applications to exist on my hard drive? Or would there be a better way to go about doing this?
I don't mind small applications that I use frequently being installed on my SSD, in fact I prefer it. Packages like Chromium are ones that I'd like to have on the SSD.