(04-08-2018, 02:08 PM)supergamer link Wrote: Now one thing to remember with a set up like this, make sure you backup your extra storage as eventually it will fail.
Thanks for your reply, supergamer.
I'm certainly with you on that one - always have two backups of my personal data drive (sometimes 3), and a weekly cloned back up of my OS drive (using 'dd' command), which preserves all the symlinks, etc. I had a bad experience back in 2002, where I lost 3 years of family photos when my Windows OS Toshiba laptop at the time crashed & was unable to retrieve the files - I learnt my lesson !
Heard a really sobering story on the radio the other day, where a local radio station's computer crashed and they lost half of all their music and commercials - it took them 6 months to recover most of it! For the little bit of time it takes to backup, it's more than worth it ...
Thanks for your other details about your system. One thing I notice is there doesn't seem to be just one right way with Linux - lots of folk have different ways of doing things.
However, I'm still curious to know what reason goldfinger has for not symlinking /home/username/Desktop to the separate data drive in his tutorial - I'll get an answer to that eventually (hopefully) ....
64bit OS (32-bit on Samsung[i] netbook) installed in [i]Legacy mode on MBR-formatted SSDs (except pi which uses a micro SDHC card):
2017 - Raspberry pi 3B (4cores) ~ [email protected] - LibreElec, used for upgrading our Samsung TV (excellent for the task)
2012 - Lenovo G580 2689 (2cores; 4threads] ~ [email protected] - LL3.8/Win8.1 dual-boot (LL working smoothly)
2011 - Samsung NP-N145 Plus (1core; 2threads) ~ Intel Atom [email protected] - LL 3.8 32-bit (64-bit too 'laggy')
2008 - Asus X71Q (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6/Win8.1 dual-boot, LL works fine with kernel 4.15
2007 - Dell Latitude D630 (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6, works well with kernel 4.4; 4.15 doesn't work
2017 - Raspberry pi 3B (4cores) ~ [email protected] - LibreElec, used for upgrading our Samsung TV (excellent for the task)
2012 - Lenovo G580 2689 (2cores; 4threads] ~ [email protected] - LL3.8/Win8.1 dual-boot (LL working smoothly)
2011 - Samsung NP-N145 Plus (1core; 2threads) ~ Intel Atom [email protected] - LL 3.8 32-bit (64-bit too 'laggy')
2008 - Asus X71Q (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6/Win8.1 dual-boot, LL works fine with kernel 4.15
2007 - Dell Latitude D630 (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6, works well with kernel 4.4; 4.15 doesn't work