Under drive manager I can set the size of the swapfile, but I cannot select to disable it.
Where can I set the value to 0, meaning disabled swapfile.
I am going to make some headless video players (not connected to net), reading the video file from a USB stick.
My goal is to make it as robust as possible, as I know it will not be shutdown correctly, but simply powered off.
If I remove the swopfile, is it then possible to select the RO option in drive manager, and is there anything else I can do to prevent a corrupted SD card - and I don’t need any cron functionality, as the only thing is shall do is starting video looping on start up, and do that forever, until powered off.
There still needs a tiny swap file just in case (for stability), but setting the swappiness to 0 will keep it from swapping until it absolutely needs it.
chrnobel
Open dietpi-drive_manager, go to your root drive/partition select swapfile and enter 0.
This will disable and remove the swap file. Swappiness does not need to be adjusted. If you have an external drive, I would instead enable the swap file on that external drive.
I would not disable cron jobs, since those include some core maintenance tasks. Although if you want to run the system completely R/O, then this is probably okay. Note that DietPi (it’s scripts) will most likely behave a bid strange or prompt errors when root is R/O. It is not really made for that. Some task for the feature to have a R/O mode.
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