On 02-12-18 11:41, Edward Bartolo wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
One dramatically sdcard saving option is to use noatime when mounting your sdcard in /etc/fstab like /dev/mmcblk0p2 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 0 It disables writing a timestamp when a file or directory has been accessed. Other options i know of are using JFFS2 made for flash kind of storage. Using aufs or unionfs which in fact create a readonly fs with changes in RAM which can be write back to disk when your system shutdown in a orderly fashion. Grtz Nick
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