Video Tutorials now available!

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Re: Video Tutorials now available!

#131 Post by dolphin_oracle »

richb wrote:Love the idea of symlinking folders to the data partition, keeping home partition lean. I have a separate home and it was always pushing its size limit.
I started doing this when it became apparent that doing testing work (and the videos is some ways) was going to require me to have to reinstall my os pretty often. I wanted those settings entries gone, without having to nuke my data. the symlinks became the easy solution.
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#132 Post by Gaer Boy »

dolphin_oracle wrote:
richb wrote:Love the idea of symlinking folders to the data partition, keeping home partition lean. I have a separate home and it was always pushing its size limit.
I started doing this when it became apparent that doing testing work (and the videos is some ways) was going to require me to have to reinstall my os pretty often. I wanted those settings entries gone, without having to nuke my data. the symlinks became the easy solution.
This has also been my solution for a good few years. My data files are on a second drive, symlinked to /home and accessible to all the OSs. /home is in / on all OSs.
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#133 Post by dolphin_oracle »

quickie on playing a dvd

MX Linux - Play a DVD (mx-codecs)
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richb wrote:Love the idea of symlinking folders to the data partition, keeping home partition lean. I have a separate home and it was always pushing its size limit.
Wish that I had thought about doing this earlier, although am about halfway there. Home lives on the second drive and is large enough (200 GB) to cope with umpteen versions of the User Manual in several languages. Installing MX-16 was merely a matter putting the root on to the SSD sda and retaining the existing home on the 1TB sdb. Perhaps this may cause problems? None as yet. Backup is to sdc, another 1TB drive, connected via USB. This still leaves a spare SATA connection from the box, for testing other drives, and for copying partitions with GParted. Old fashioned perhaps, but it works well. Next move will be to try more symlinking.
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#135 Post by dolphin_oracle »

http://www.youtube.com/runwiththedolphin
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http://www.youtube.com/runwiththedolphin
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#137 Post by Jerry3904 »

Great output, thanks. Will actually look at later (on phone)

LATER: Nice job! A lot of work... (I added a "Probably MX-15 only" to the Wiki Method B)
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#139 Post by richb »

I do have those file type search functions in the left pane of dolphin working. As I recall installing strigi will activate them after a database refresh. Don't hold me to it as it has been a long time since I installed dolphin, and forgot to add it to the list.

EDIT: That is the "Search For" file types. Not Recent activity.
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#140 Post by dolphin_oracle »

richb wrote:I do have those file type search functions in the left pane of dolphin working. As I recall installing strigi will activate them after a database refresh. Don't hold me to it as it has been a long time since I installed dolphin, and forgot to add it to the list.
cool thanks!
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