On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 12:16:34 +0100, Dr. wrote in message <201812021216.34883.dr.kl...@gmx.at>:
> Am Sonntag, 2. Dezember 2018 schrieb Edward Bartolo: > > Hi everyone. > > > > Recently I have been using a Raspberry Pi 3B, obviously powered with > > Devuan, to run as music player. Restarting it yesterday, I was > > dismayed to discover it would not boot properly anymore, with long > > lists of errors complaining about not being able to write to the SD > > CARD. The latter is not full. Examining it I found it is now > > permanently marked as read-only. Searching online for an explanatory > > cause, I learnt this occurs when the maximum number of write cycles > > is reached. So, the SD CARD, although brand new is now to be thrown > > away. > > > > The purpose of this email is to ask how to radically minimized write > > cycles to the SD CARD when I run Devuan for Raspberry Pi 3. I found > > a how-to which uses /tmp fs for frequently modified system files, > > but the user uses systemd and I do not want to have that. > > > > Can any good soul help, please? > > Thanks. > > Do not use swap. > Use ramfs for /tmp and /var/tmp. > Turn off logging. ...or log to a log server. > Mount / readonly. > Use "noatime" mountoption. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
