Increase root partition/disk size (BEFORE first boot)

cp -p 2017-09-07-raspbian-stretch-lite.img sda.img
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda.img bs=1 count=1 seek=50G

rasp-config

Locale = en_AU ISO-8859-1

Default locale: en_AU

Timezone = Australia/Sydney

Keyboard = Generic 104 key PC
English (US)
Accept other defaults

Enable SSH

Reboot

Install ntp, configure, enable and start

cd /etc/sysctl.d
echo "vm.swappiness = 95" > swappiness.conf

Add a 5G swap partition

Reboot