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Advice for a newbie - Multiple drives setup
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A lot of this is personal preference but I will suggest the following strategy. Mount all of your drives into subfolders of /mnt or /media (/mnt is usually used for more permanent storage but either is fine). Then symlink various folders on the system to this mount point. Like maybe you want your home folder downloads on one of these drives so /home/spawnsalot/Downloads is symlinkef to /mnt/drive1/Downloads.
This lets you pick and choose various places across your system that are actually on the additional drives but also the ability to see everything on the drives in one place.
Game installation location completely depends on the game itself. Some might install to /usr/bin, others to /opt, etc. You might have to dig around a little after install, move the folder, then symlink it like nothing ever happened.
Since I haven't WELL ACKSHULLY'd anyone today: /mnt is for temporary user mounts, and /media is for removable storage like USB drives and stuff.
To be fully Linux Nerd(TM) compliant, you probably want to actually just mount the drives anywhere you want to mount the drives, because for some really goofy reason, there wasn't and isn't an Official(TM) filesystem location for mounting permanently attached storage.
Yeah I don't know either.