On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:56:03 +0200 Marko Vojinovic wrote:
You want to create two partitions on the SSD and three on the HD. The SSD partitions should have the mount points /boot and /, while the HD partitions should have mount points /tmp, /var and /home. That's all there is to it, really.
It seems that you are just missing the observation that (by default) everything that does not have its own mount point will be put as a directory into / during the installation. However, directories that *do* have their own mount points will be put on their respective drives, and just logically "mounted" into the / tree. So you just create separate partitions for stuff you want to go to the HD, and everything else will go inside the / partition, which should be on the SSD.
Aha! The light just came on for me here. Thanks to everyone for your observations and insight on this; I now have a better understanding of drive partitioning than I did before.
I just now started formatting this new machine.
Btw, I stopped bothering to create a separate /boot partition some time ago, and never looked back... What is your usecase for having it separated from / ?
Nothing, other than that's how the default partition scheme seems to work on my other Centos installations so I figured if that's the default there must be a good reason for it.