Swappiness

[ukbrian]

@Wirezfree
Thank's for replying friend.

I'm thinking more from a new users point of view to simplify things for them.

I believe the multiple partitiond business comes down from the server world and is not of any benifit on a desktop. A swap file is good enough for Windows.

I first encountered a linux swap file on Saline OS the dev was a network manager


To me a 30 GB swap seems daft but he also did a server version of Saline.

I have never used a home partition, it's another unneccessary partition to create and confuse new comers with, using a NTFS data partition is the only sensible way!
/windows /root /data.

I have FX ESR portable https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/or...tions/all/ unpacked at /data/apps/mozilla/firefox with my FX profiles at /data/apps/mozilla/profiles so all my linux OS's use the same FX portable folder and profiles, I was chuffed to be able to use the same folder/profiles for manjaro, fedora and opensuse linux's. It also worked for my Deadbeef portable jukebox.

I rarely go into my /home/user folder as I have symlinks from /home/user/data where my data partition is mounted by fstab to /home. eg

Code:

sudo ln -s /home/user/data/downloads /home/

Most of what I do is filed in downloads

Code:

sudo ln -s /home/user/data/downloads /home/
sudo ln -s /home/user/data/apps /home/
sudo ln -s /home/user/data/ducky /home/

If I install a new OS I normally from in the live dvd open thunar and add a data folder /home/user/data to the new install and then run thunar as root "gksu thunar" and edit the new fstab at /etc/fstab and add

Code:

LABEL=data    /home/user/data   ntfs-3g  defaults,uid=1000    0      0

to it.

I then edit "/etc/default/grub" so it looks like this

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
#  info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="Handy-1.7"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="initrd=/install/gtk/initrd.gz"

# Remove Advanced option
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=y

# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"
GRUB_BACKGROUND="/usr/share/images/grub/handylinux.tga"

GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=y
Will a new comer be able to use anything in this "Advanced" menu option? I've never done anything with it so I remove the clutter of this option.

#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480
A new comer from windows see's a menu for the first time ever and it's in a very small font, user friendly? I don't think so, so I always remove the comment tag.

#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
Is this of any use to a new comer, I've never used it so I uncomment it and remove another option or more clutter from my menu.

I normally write the new grub to the root partition so next I boot into my base OS and run grub-doctor to update the grub on the new OS and then do a "sudo update-grub" and reboot.

I'm rambling(off topic) again I know, put me against the wall please young un's, you can't teach an old dog new tricks.


Ikey's already rebuilt his base and beta 1.1 is likely to be out late weekend, I hate the depressing hard to see themes he uses but this rebuild seems to have made the packaging even easier.
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