On 24/04/17 12:25, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 19:08:56 +1200, Ben Ritchey wrote:
>
>> Me either {chuckle} and I do all my dev under Wins :)
>>
> You might want to take a look at the developer tools that come as
> standard with every Linux: tools like grep and awk are very useful for
> one-off jobs. For instance, I wanted to look at a series of numbers (used
> for serialisation) in a collection of 59 source files and list them,
> sorted by number so I could visually check that there were no duplicates.
> This did it:
>
> grep -r serialVersionUID *.java | awk -e '{print $8, $1}' | sort -k1
>
> Grep selects the lines containing the number, awk built a line from it
> containing the filename and serial number, and sort ordered the lines by
> ascending serial number.
>
> But I digress...
>
>> Yes, I thought about var! So if I copy var to the ssd, delete var then
>> symlink var to the ssd var folder, will that work?
>>
> Yes, that's exactly how you'd do it.
>

be careful. At boot you may need to write to /var before you actually
have /home mounted. and that's  also a possibility if you boot into
single user mode.

Personally I suspect you should think about all the options carefully.



>>  MG > http://www.libelle-systems.com/free/linux/easier_upgrades.html
>>
>> Thanks, I'll go peruse that. Since my last post I D/L'd an SD card
>> tester and found out my two 32GB cards were bad, so that's part of the
>> problem lol
>>
> Yes, that would have an effect!
>
> I think the trick is to buy SD cards from reputable sellers and only buy
> brands that are known to own flash fabs. I prefer Sandisk but Samsung
> should also be OK. Toshiba also own a fab but I don't know their flash
> brand name(s).
>
>


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