Posts by Klojum

Quote from shippy

1. So what I understand is that the Clonezilla backup process above doesn't solve my real issue: backing up *only* the used portions of the original SD card with the LE distro+ add-ons+ settings?

CloneZilla does not do incremental backups as far as I know. Also an incremental backup image covering one or more partitions I something I've never seen.

Quote from shippy

2. Another way: Will the usual LE backup also include any custom splash images from /flash?

No. The LE Backup/Restore is nothing more but a tar command, archiving a couple of folders in the /storage partition.

I have CloneZilla on my PC machines as a Live session, as part of the machine's multi-boot setup.

No more fondling or clumsying around with usb sticks or YUMI

1) If you know CloneZilla, following the defaults of that program should be easy enough and sufficient for a one-stop full backup. Create a full image of your SSD onto your backup device of choice: a big enough USB stick or a external HDD/SSD, or something directly to a file server in your network.

2) That is where the LibreELEC Backup/Restore tool comes into play. There is no way IMO that a PC SSD image will directly work on a S905 box. Although miracles can happen, I guess.

Quasar is on the list of banned Kodi addons. Any discussion or support on the LibreELEC and Kodi forums is off limits.

Whatever that addon (or any other non-official addon) does, is not our problem.

The simplest way of cooling a Raspberry Pi is to remove the casing (if applicable).

If you have done overclocking, take it a step down.

LibreELEC itself is not an operating system. It uses a minimal Linux kernel plus some bells and whistles to run Kodi. A LibreELEC installation doesn't create a swap file, but could use it if available from a different Linux installation, as in dual boot situations. The Linux kernel also supports trim for a while now.

The file mostly edited/changed in Kodi every time would be the MyVideos*** database file, All the other files are basically all readonly, unless you want to set up your Kodi differently every week or so.

On the other hand, write tests on SSD drives are done with writing the maximum of gigabytes 24/7, and then still it takes years before the MTBF is reached. I don't think the LibreELEC application falls in the same drive exhausting category.

Quote from Forceflow

This is gonna sound petty

Yes, it is. (IMO)

The first comment to your 'writeup' URL comes from someone saying "Thank you! I've always cringed whenever I've seen that term thrown around", yet he/she(?) dares to use the nickname "KikassAssassin"?!? It sums up the whole problem to me. It comes across like a tough person (assassin) who apparently is afraid of something like ... a mouse in the kitchen?

Quote from S80_UK

In most cases that I can think of, the terms "not very user friendly" or "may present technical challenges" can be worked into a sentence just as readily

For me, it all comes down to people becoming so afraid these days to hurt other people's feelings or get hurt in every way possible. Things need to be said as-is. Like in George Carlin's piece, where he spoke about the direct impact war condition "Shell shock", which later became "Battle Fatigue", then "Operational Exhaustion" and ended as today's "Post-traumatic Stress Disorder", a wording that drifted away far from the original term and lost its impact along the way. Who knows what the next brain-dead replacement term will be... The impact from the original description/word gets so flat-lined, people's brains themselves get numbed along with it to a level where no expression will be acceptable. Like people won't accept spicy meals anymore, but only meals with dull and flavorless stuff.

But also, kids today are being so overprotected by over-caring parents in cleaned home environments, that their body system get confused by just the slightest imbalance. Kids are also not allowed to hurt themselves anymore during physical exercises at school, and the parents will blame the PT teacher for the band-aid on their kid's knee if they do get hurt. In the end, nothing will be allowed anymore. People are becoming wusses.

Some things used to be simpler and better IMO in the early days, so for your own good I'd suggest you grow a pair of cojones... I'm joining Ozarks' stance on this.

Also, as this thread has nothing to do with actual technical features or requests, I'm moving the thread to the Off-topic section.

Chances you will need to do a Backup first, freshly install LibreELEC (because of the bigger system partition size), and then restore the backup from OE.

Sadly, I'm not an AMD graphics guru or know all of its details. AMD = trial and error for now.

Vega needs at least the Linux 4.18 something kernel, and I'm not sure if Milhouse's builds are already up to that level.

There is no secret setting for auto-scanning a library on a clean setup of LibreELEC or Kodi. You may have installed an addon that does trigger a library update at 1:30 every time.

It's still a work-in-progress, afaik.Try the latest Milhouse build, you'll need the latest Linux kernel and Mesa drivers for AMD Vega graphics.

It's not very handy to start posting in someone else's 'Solved' topic, so I've split your post into a new thread.

@Borygo77

Please use a pastebin website next time for sharing log files, we try to keep our forum server as lean as possible.

Not all NUCs are likely to support HDR, only the more expensive Core iX variants, and not the Pentium or Celeron chips.

BTW, I tested a RPi 3B+ and LibreELEC booting & running off external 2.5" casing with a SSD. I runs well, and you can use larger drives easily instead of SD cards.

"Installing a driver" in LibreELEC is not an option. The LibreELEC setup consists of two big read-only 'blob' system and kernel files.

If you want to add video drivers, you will need to take the source of LibreELEC, add the necessary VIA graphics drivers (and possibly other stuff), and recompile all of it into a new LibreELEC image.

That's a lot to ask for a single LibreELEC user.

Quote from omphi

is suddenly full.

Suddenly, eh?

I don't know what your video/music library looks like, but basically Kodi creates thumbs for every video available. I don't know how Kodi 18's garbage collection will be, but it's possible there are some loose ends on your setup.

You can try using Milhouse's TextureCache tool and delete some stuff.

Or use a bigger SD card and create a LibreELEC setup, and copy/move all files manually from the old to the new card..

Can you also do a df -h output?

Do they all have unique partition names?

@patrickjburt

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