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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.)