Ive had some trouble finding a way to create a stable Porteus boot, both with and without a .dat file though I think ive found one. I wanted to avoid using a .dat file because it seemed like theres a fair amount of issues, but I cant boot without the first partition being a fat32 format. After a lot of research ive came to this set up:
https://imgur.com/NploqeU
(Sorry if the image doesnt show up, im new to forums like this so I left the direct link too just in case)
The fat32 partition only has the boot and efi files, the PortyOS ext4 Partition has the Porteus and System Volume Information files, and the PortyData ext4 Partition has nothing yet. Ive heard that LinuxSwap isnt crazy useful on modern systems (mine has 16gb ram) but I figured it wouldnt hurt. I have the save file under PortyOs>Porteus>Changes and it seems to be saving fine from what I can tell (though on a reboot my downloaded browser, the only thing in the module file, was deactivated and the icon on the desktop was gone, only the text left. Thats not my main focus atm though).
Does this seem like a stable way to run Porteus in the long term? Should PortyOS and PortyData be under the same partition? I am not opposed to doing research into magic folders if I need. I just like the idea of separate partitions, to have two places to make it less likey to slow things down and/or break anything. Im not opposed to changing format, the ext4 choice comes from two posts on here where ppl looked into it and it seemed a good option for both decent speed and corruption prevention. Im not too concerned about the potential long term wear from ext4, USB drives are cheap and I want a good functional version to work with now and learn more advanced options in later installations.
Any reassurance and/or suggestions on stability (and to a lesser extent performance) would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you so much for any feedback! Ive been really exited about using and learning about Linux for the first time and love Porteus so far
P.S. As a side question, is Porteus 5.0 KDE considered fully or at least mostly stable? Could some of my past problems be coming form that? I was running into 3 main issues before, freezing programs, frozen programs not always terminating, and the boot breaking even after save files being successful at saving. Didnt even think of looking into that until just now.
