Mount point confusion

Hello, I'm doing an installation of Linux for an older system, new to installing Linux of any kind. I'm trying to keep the main drive as clean as possible, as it's a 60GB SSD. I want everything other than the OS to install/default to a 1TB HDD. I saw in another forum post to do 'something else' when it came to chosing what to do with the drive/partitions.

My confusion now comes in when selecting mount points. I've set the /boot to my 60GB SSD, and /home to the 1TB HDD. But there's a ton of other locations which I can't specify where to put. /usr and /usr/local seem like good things to move to the 1TB HDD since from my searching, that's where program files are put.

There's also other mount points like /tmp, /var, /srv and, /opt. Where are those put? In the folder of /boot or along with /home?

If I specify /usr to go to a drive, would /usr/local not also be included? Are the /usr folders normally located within the /home?

Forget all about that other mount points. Usually you set:
/boot (1-1.5 GB) (fat32)
/ (root) (30-40 GB depending how much you'll need to install systemwide) (ext4)
/home (the rest) (ext4)
swap (depending how much ram you have) (swap)

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