04-04-2018, 01:29 PM
After some thought, I decided to limit the LL3.8 HDD partition to 32GB and keep a seperate partition for 'big' data like video and music files, the reason being that it only takes around 50 minutes (on my i5 PC) to clone the full system including all the extra apps I installed. My total system size is only 26GB. So 'dd' will now be my default system backup method henceforth.
A further problem raised its head - long boot time due to sitting on the yellow feather boot screen for 1m 30s. That was due to not finding the swap partition during booting. For some unknown reason the UUID for the swap partition was not being accepted, even though I double checked it was correct, so I edited fstab to replace the UUID with the correct device id, sda5 and boot time was much reduced.
I think I can now say I have a 'perfect' system for my needs.
Power to Linux Lite (Thanks Jerry and team).
Thanks Mike,
A further problem raised its head - long boot time due to sitting on the yellow feather boot screen for 1m 30s. That was due to not finding the swap partition during booting. For some unknown reason the UUID for the swap partition was not being accepted, even though I double checked it was correct, so I edited fstab to replace the UUID with the correct device id, sda5 and boot time was much reduced.
I think I can now say I have a 'perfect' system for my needs.
Power to Linux Lite (Thanks Jerry and team).
Thanks Mike,
1) Lenovo T520 i5 LL3.8 8GB ram, fast & stable
2) Medion P4 32bit LL3.8 1GB ram, quite fast & stable
3) eeePC 901 32bit LL3.8 1GB ram, fast & stable
4) eeePC 701 32bit LL3.8 1GB ram, slower & stable but small and light enough to travel with me to New Zealand when visiting family in Blenheim.
2) Medion P4 32bit LL3.8 1GB ram, quite fast & stable
3) eeePC 901 32bit LL3.8 1GB ram, fast & stable
4) eeePC 701 32bit LL3.8 1GB ram, slower & stable but small and light enough to travel with me to New Zealand when visiting family in Blenheim.