Install across multiple disks?

General system EndeavourOS installation
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Is it possible to install Endeavor across two separate disks, i.e home on one disk, and system on the other?

Edit: I think I figured it out, I didn’t realize you could choose mount points across different disks in manual partitioning.

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Yes, if you use manual partitioning there is combobox(drop down) at the top of the page. This lets you switch between disks.

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FYI It’s also possible to do after install by manually changing what disk is going to be used as /home in the /etc/fstab file. Which is handy when your system is on one disk, and running out of room. Add the next disk, unmount the previous /home, mount the new one as /home, remembering to create appropriate permissions, then copy the user files from the old to the new, and check that you have correct ownership and perms.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fstab

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Interesting, I’ll look into that, thanks!
This is what my fstab looks like after using manual partitioning in the installer:

UUID=4c82490f-e476-45ea-adb3-5c4e7261762a /home          ext4    defaults,noatime 0 2
UUID=044E-3B27                            /boot/efi      vfat    umask=0077 0 2
UUID=21f85315-60b2-40c2-92e6-1153a00a3787 /              ext4    defaults,noatime 0 1
tmpfs                                     /tmp           tmpfs   defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
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A better solution, in my opinion:

  • Install everything on one partition.
  • Add the second partition in fstab and manually symlink either your entire home directory or parts of it.
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