On 26/02/17 12:20 PM, Richmond wrote:
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I only have an 80 gig disk on this system, and I only had 20 gig for root.
I have a laptop I still use that has a 80G drive. I set up with LVM and never used all of the 80G. It's a 32-but machine so I still run 13.2 on it. For the 'big stuff' I use NFS to my desktop, but for a machine out of the house, writing, browsing, email, its more than adequate. I only *need* the powerful (by comparison) 64-bit desktop with the wide screen for things like photediting. heck, for many things, browsing the web, news reading, book reading, email, the Android tablet is perfectly adequate and I can use that on the patio. its a lot lighter than the laptop to and more handleable.
Snapshots were useful for retrieving the occasional file, but I never succeeded in booting from a snapshot. Always they were unbootable.
Regular readers will recall that I'm a strong advocate of LVM. LVM lets you do snapshots in a number of ways. Simple LVM snapshots create an initially empty logical partition that only fills with copies of the files you change. But there is also a way to run 'snapper' with a thin partition type mirror using LVM. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org