Hello Tony,

On 24 Oct 16 07:58, Tony Langdon wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 NB>> I used to use that method all the time. Now not so much. If I
 NB>> know I'm going to be moving things around, I'll put /home on it's
 NB>> own partition, but other than that.. I don't really need to
 NB>> partition anything anymore, and just use a swapfile rather than a
 NB>> swap partition as well.

 TL> My last few system have been Pi boards, so they've been dingle
 TL> partition, no swap setups.  Swap is a bad idea on flash cards. :)

There is still internal storage (albeit not very much) storage on those things,
isn't there? I haven't had the opportunity to look at Pi's or anything like
them yet. I'm still running on 12+ year old hardware that has only needed a few
power supplies over the years. If I decide to continue the hobby if/when sh!t
hits the fan, I may indeed have to look into something like this or a cheap
hosting facility (free would be better.. lol) in the future.

I had a Gentoo setup for my BBS for years. When I originally set it up, I
followed the Gentoo install guide and set a 512mb swap partition, which worked
for many of those years. After awhile, dosemu (used for old door games along
with the processing of them all, including networked games.. etc) would crash
at random times. After noticing that my swap partition was exceeded, I created
a 2gb swapfile and all was well after that.

So when I eventually switched to Archlinux, I didn't even bother with the swap
partition, and went with a 2gb swapfile and haven't had a problem with it
since. It was about that time I realized I didn't really need any other
partitioning, since it was my only Linux system and I wasn't going to be moving
partitions around besides simple backups that could be achieved with a bash
script and scp'ing it to another machine.

 NB>> ... "There is a very fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental
 NB>> illness.'"

 TL> LOL

Truth. :)

Regards,
Nick

... "I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it."
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