Link2SD & CM11: Optimal Strategies

I am super-curious if & how anyone here is using Link2SD successfully with CM11 (on the Epic 4G, specifically).

I've tried scouring these forums, and the Internet in general, to figure out the best way to get this to work...

But everything that I've tried, it all seems to be working great, only up until the first time that the phone reboots, then it all goes to hell.

I am wondering if there are any extra steps to follow, specifically for the Epic 4G, or any particular pitfalls known to avoid?

That's why I wanted to ask here, specifically to Epic 4G users...

If you are getting Link2SD to work well with CM11, then please chime in here, and can you explain how you got it all set up and working well?

(I feel like this is the one last thing that if I could conquer it, then I could really continue to get a lot of life out of this phone... as it stands, it seems too risky to put much faith in Link2SD, because if the phone happens to spontaneously reboot while I'm out running around, then I'm screwed because so many apps just disappear, and then it's a pain to re-download, re-install, and re-setup each of them...)

Thanks in advance for any help,
AS

I've finally got a system going that seems to work for me, and so I thought I'd share some things.

I'm on CM11 (as of today, cm-11-20140602-NIGHTLY-epicmtd.zip) and I'm using Link2SD.

HERE'S A "GOTCHA" THAT HAD ME PULLING MY HAIR OUT FOR AT LEAST A DAY OR TWO:

Link2SD was having problems mounting the 2nd partition - it would just say "Mount script cannot be created." or something like that (not a very helpful error message), no matter how many times I rebooted and tried again. What I *finally* figured out (somehow), was that this error was being caused by /system being completely full. When I went and deleted a few things from /system (such as goofy wallpapers or that 'Apollo' app that I never use), then Link2SD was able to successfully create the script, and then I'd reboot and could use the 2nd partition successfully.

It's still a little aggravating that any reboot of the phone will cause all of my "Linked" apps to disappear - I've played with this until I am blue in the face, and have resigned myself to accepting that this is just "how it is" (?) - but I'm now using Titanium Backup as my workaround.

STEPS I TAKE WHEN THE PHONE REBOOTS:

1) Go into Link2Sd and make sure the 2nd partition is usable, otherwise recreate mount scripts (deleting wallpapers/Apollo if necessary)

2) Under Link2SD's "More" menu, perform the following:

a) Clean up the 2nd partition

b) Clean up the dalvik-cache

c) Clear all app caches

3) Restore apps from Titanium Backup

a) starting with Facebook app (the biggest hog) and then immediately go and make Facebook a "Linked" app again

b) restore a few more apps (to internal/phone), then go and shuffle those over to "Linked" apps via Link2SD

c) (repeat step 'b' until all apps are restored and "Linked" via Link2SD


^ This is the only way I've been able to get this to work for me... but now I can put about as many apps on the phone as I'll ever possibly need, and I have to say everything is running pretty smoothly now - but if anyone can see a better way, or how to improve what I'm doing, then I'm all ears... please let me (us) know.

Thanks!

UPDATE: the latest version of Link2SD (3.5.2) has "fixed the bug that causes linked apps disappear on reboot when internal data is linked".

So... if you've also ponied up the buck or two for Link2SD Plus (as I have), then this finally works again like you'd always hoped it would.

I just loaded a bazillion apps back on the phone, and have been able to reboot multiple times without losing them.

The only time I "lost" them for a moment was after flashing to the latest CM11 nightly, but then doing the "Recreate mount scripts" and reboot brought them right back, with no other shenanigans necessary.

(Just wanted to let people know, because this is such a relief to me now....)

HURRAY!