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I recently bought a C720 Chromebook and have since put Ubuntu on it. The only problem I have so far is the limited amount of disk space left on the SSD.

I was wondering if it'd be possible to install apps onto an SD card or USB drive maybe even an external hard drive and run the files from there.

I read into symlinks but I don't really know where to start with those, At the moment I'm trying to install Skype and Steam onto my SD Card without taking up the remaining space on my SSD.

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  • Welcome to AU! It's possible and not that hard to move around system files and/or user data in Ubuntu. Can you please run sudo lsblk -o NAME,RM,FSTYPE,LABEL,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT and edit your question to include its output?
    – David Foerster
    Oct 22, 2014 at 10:39
  • While installing Ubuntu, you can choose to keep the /usr folder in a SDCARD partition.
    – Archisman Panigrahi
    May 26, 2023 at 12:44

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Applications get installed on internal memory which is faster and they are run from there directly. You can save non-applications like songs, videos, and other things on SD card though. If you are very low on internal memory then uninstall some not so frequently used applications.

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Move apps from. Ext.sdcard to internal sd to use then backup again when done. Problem is moving appsupport from ext.sdcard.

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    Welcome and thanks for contributing. Would you mind to provide more details on how to that?
    – MadMike
    Oct 22, 2014 at 8:29
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I am trying vm-ware on an external 64 size card to run another copy of linux onto Ubuntu and load my programs in virtual machine. My trouble is the Acer CB3-111 chromebook has only 2 GB RAM. A fast external drive might help.

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