Re: [DNG] Insane defaults on Raspberry Pi images - How to fix corruption/dataloss

2019-11-13 Thread Bruce Ferrell
On 11/13/19 12:26 AM, Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote: Quote from Bruce Ferrel: "There are actually a couple of ways around the SD wear issue, even though people seem to dearly LOVE SSDs with the exact same issue; 1.) Use a USB drive. 2.) Somewhat more esoteric, PXE boot and run from an NFS

Re: [DNG] disable elogind messages?

2019-11-13 Thread Mark Hindley
Hal, On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 04:35:14AM -0600, hal wrote: > Hi, > Any way to disable elogind from filling up the message logs? I think all > these messages are happening because I have cron jobs running frequently. > > I could possibly tell rsyslog to file these in cron.log (if it is cron) but >

[DNG] Insane defaults on Raspberry Pi images - How to fix corruption/dataloss

2019-11-13 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Quote from Bruce Ferrel: "There are actually a couple of ways around the SD wear issue, even though people seem to dearly LOVE SSDs with the exact same issue; 1.) Use a USB drive. 2.) Somewhat more esoteric, PXE boot and run from an NFS image." [/Quote] You are right, people love SD Cards, not

[DNG] disable elogind messages?

2019-11-13 Thread hal
Hi, Any way to disable elogind from filling up the message logs? I think all these messages are happening because I have cron jobs running frequently. I could possibly tell rsyslog to file these in cron.log (if it is cron) but there is still the problem of excess logging taking up disk space.

Re: [DNG] Insane defaults on Raspberry Pi images - How to fix corruption/dataloss

2019-11-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 10:31:27 +0100 Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote: > Hi all, > > The Raspberry Pi is very frequency used with an SD Card which is > highly intolerant of frequent writes as these are limited. My first SD > Card became read only after about six weeks with Devuan running. Using >

Re: [DNG] Insane defaults on Raspberry Pi images - How to fix corruption/dataloss

2019-11-13 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 07:27:03PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 10:31:27 +0100 > > Regarding eliminating the journal, you bring up a good point. But so > did some other people arguing the opposite. I suggest an installation > that gives the following choices: > > * Don't use a