i despise plastic and i want to minimize it where possible.

in this particular case the components will be exposed to the sun and that will degrade the plastic over time, and that is something that wont happen to wood :)

No but I rebooted the system after the change. do still need to update it regardless the reboot?

no, I just removed them with the live cd and repartitioned it (Im assuming its doing the same thing under the hood?)

editing the /etc/fstab didnt work (I just changed the path but not sure if the uuid plays any part) but ill give the rm/mkdir part a go

the command returns my user dir and a lost+found dir

yes it is a symlink to /var/home

I think ‘sar’ is a good candidate for cpu, memory and network data?