Why does Linux do anything it does? Because a bunch of shortsighted nerds think it's a good idea. For example, try to install software on another disk.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Any help with that?

[–] MJBrune@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

As someone said you solution is to symlink or setup LVM volume groups for different mount points. Essentially, it's all or nothing. You can't just put a single program on a different disk without then taking all those files and manually symlinking them to the right place. It's honestly one of the biggest Linux oversights.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Symlink your desired location on the target disk to the place the system thinks the software should go. (In my case, /usr/local/games is a symlink to a different drive.)

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

XDG specifies the capital names, but to be nitpickingly technically precise, linux systems don't do this. It mostly is done by the distribution maintainers, and the XDG specs. A base system does not usually have a notion of anything beyond your $HOME.

Try adding a user: sudo adduser basicuser. If you ls -al ~basicuser you will see it's almost empty, just the .bashrc (or in my fedora, there's some .mozilla crap in /etc/skel that also gets bootstrapped).