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. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER!