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I write you a how to on how to remove stuff when using bbqsnapshot

^ I used the wiki and parts of the RYO release notes to make my backup. I was going to just use the release notes for the iso. Would this be a good idea?
But that would be a great help! Thank you! :-)

might take a few days, no computer at hand and I'm not going to type all that shit on a mobile phone:)

I just say: clean up the /var folder at snapshot time.

Truly, no hurry. :) I'm at the mercy of my data plan until May 9, unless I get to a hotspot sometime before that ;)

New Egeszsegedre install. Update worked well. For some reason the system autologins with "user" even though I added myself. I also changed the network name to "hello" during the install, but I am still on grill.
I do believe I need to reinstall, lols, but it's a start :))

no need to reinstall, you can change all that while it's running, google 'change linux hostname' just a text file or two.
not sure about the user@ - you'll figure it out :)

Thanks, wux :-) I will find something that will allow me to change my hostname. I am taking it slow and easy. I am going back over the issues I had the first go round and remembering the things that worked.
I don't intend on loading this one up with one-time fix apps and the like, just trying to have a simple system for the few things that I like to do on a daily basis.
I have three other full-bloat systems for all the other stuff.
BTW, long time no talk! Hi!

never reinstall if it actually works.

1) autologin as "user"? check /etc/inittab with elevated permissions, at the bottom where it says "login -a" or so and change the string "user" to what your user name is.
2) hostname change? with elevated permissions edit /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts then reboot (that's easiest)
3) you probably need libpng for scrot taking PNG screenshots. install "libpng12-0" (if I remember correctly, though it should be installed by default), but anyway (and that's the actual problem for the error) you are trying to save as normal user to /scrots (look carefully) and not ~/scrots, that means that /scrots is:
- either not existing
- or inside of the root directory / and thus
- not writeable by user (who has only rights for /home/USERNAME)

Try to write to ~/scrots instead, provided the directory exists (created by a normal user in the user's home directory ~)

The filesystem layout in / looks somehow like this:
/bin
/boot
/home
/home/USERNAME <- also called ~
/home/USERNAME/scrots <- also called ~/scrots
/media
/usr
/scrots <- a different location, and not existing usually

Check permissions with "ls -l /" to see who owns what. USERNAME can not write to any folder that belongs to "root" without having elevated permissions (for example using sudo before the command)

Howdy! Thanks, machinebacon! I changed the hostname easily then went on to my user problem.
And I crashed it, lols.
You didn't get to me fast enough, but I can see very clearly everything you just explained because I was working all around that directory.
I KNEW there had to be a better way than deluser, but all the examples I got online dealt with X11 scripts and configs, and usually referred to usr/bin or usr/local/bin or an etc/X11/thisorthat file....headspins looking through all those files @8-|
<insert facepalm, then rofl>
This round will be a lot easier because I hope to be setting up a boot partition as well. I know the grub installed incorrectly because I had to get in through the back door- not the grub menu for E (because there isn't one) but from the grub menu for M******- and that may be why I never got a login prompt? I don't remember E doing an autologin the last time....
The grub error, btw, had to do with not starting at the proper block. I resized my data drive (formatted in btrfs) and put a 60GB partition at the end (ext2). I know that I should probably have tried to install grub at the beginning of the drive, but everything that is data that I want to keep (music, pics, OS iso's, ROM's, PDF's, etc) are in that btrfs partition, and I didn't want to take the chance that I could lose all that.
Maybe it would be safe, but I know my track record. We're talking years of data collected on that drive.
Anyways, I feel alive! My brain is actually doing a little work, lols.
Maybe the extra cranial blood flow can help keep my hair up there a little longer :D
I have some free time tonight while I'm waiting on this load, so for now a little more G'ing on grub partitions.

You have all your important data in a btrfs partition? Seriously? I hope you have at least one backup.

/shakes head

Dear nomnom, simply do it like 99% of the grillers do it. ext4, no experiments :)

About the GRUB, autologin? I am not quite sure what you mean. You mean the time-out? Ah, I will read it later tonight again when I'm fresh ;)

nooby, where did you install grub? grub can only go on the device, not the partition, like a screen door, not much point putting on the bedroom door, needs to be on the outside!
translates to "/dev/sda" not "/dev/sda2" or 3, or whatever.

I presume you didn't delete the user before making and testing a new one?

if you want some fairly private cloud storage you can PM me

If you really want data deduplication and all that features btrfs implemented, use zfs. I think you'll likely lost a lot of space and possibly your data as well if you try those in 60GB partition though... or you could always do the easy way and buy an ssd.

In any case, you'll better off taking whatever advice the three gentlemen above mentioned. They know what they're talking about.

You are all correct :)
When my next advance comes through I will pick up a ssd, make a backup of my data partition in ext4 on the new drive, and start a fresh install on the old one.
Better safe than sorry, and that old Toshiba is looking a little worn to be my major data holder, lols.
I had high hopes for btrfs, and it's been pretty solid, but you are right.
Yeah, wux, I tried to do a false mbr(?) install to my second partition. It didn't work, lols, and it should have been clearly apparent to me when I ended up with an sdc2 instead of an sdd to partition. Doh!
KISS the next time, right?
New scrot of a fresh install probably by Tuesday of next week if all goes well! :)
Thanks for all your help, guys!

no problem, yeah - always get a backup.

^LMAOoooo! :)) I will be backin' up, backin' up.... :))

I got kind of interested in the tiling script for openbox in the wiki, lols.
I haven't totally crashed it.... yet :))
I am not particularly fond of xml (mainly because of the indentations, and the crazy <> stuff), but this is kind of fun.
Anyways! This took me a lot longer than I'm willing to admit, lols!
Got a ways to go! Gonna play with the fonts, the autostart, etc....
But now it's time for a nap!
Have a great weekend, guys!

^ well it DID work ;)

have a great weekend, too!

I did Openbox once and never again will I fuck with xml.