Re: [Emc-users] Thoughts on extending the life of the microsd's.

2017-03-13 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 03/13/2017 10:00 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: >> This has been a long time standard email client on many systems and is >> still in use today. > On this list, even. And many other places. >> It is *still* in development (last release ~16 days ago). > "*still*", huh? Venerable it may be, but

Re: [Emc-users] Thoughts on extending the life of the microsd's.

2017-03-13 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 12.03.17 23:17, Bertho Stultiens wrote: > Mutt is a command-line email reader; see > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutt_(email_client) > > This has been a long time standard email client on many systems and is > still in use today. On this list, even. > It is *still* in development (last

Re: [Emc-users] Thoughts on extending the life of the microsd's.

2017-03-12 Thread Phillip Carter
On 13/3/17 1:45 pm, Gregg Eshelman wrote: > Then why hasn't its issue with noatime been fixed? > > > >From: Bertho Stultiens > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2017 4:22 PM > Subject: Re:

Re: [Emc-users] Thoughts on extending the life of the microsd's.

2017-03-12 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Then why hasn't its issue with noatime been fixed? From: Bertho Stultiens To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2017 4:22 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Thoughts on extending the life of the microsd's.

Re: [Emc-users] Thoughts on extending the life of the microsd's.

2017-03-12 Thread Dave Cole
noatime http://en.tldp.org/LDP/solrhe/Securing-Optimizing-Linux-RH-Edition-v1.3/chap6sec73.html . Mutt http://www.tecmint.com/send-mail-from-command-line-using-mutt-command/ Dave On 3/12/2017 6:04 PM, Peter Blodow wrote: > Please, could someone explain to a poor physicist what noatime

Re: [Emc-users] Thoughts on extending the life of the microsd's.

2017-03-12 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 03/12/2017 11:04 PM, Peter Blodow wrote: > Please, could someone explain to a poor physicist what noatime and Mutt are? Noatime refers to a flag that can be set on the filesystem. By default, the access timestamp is recorded and saved in a unix filesystem (the last time you access a file, any

Re: [Emc-users] Thoughts on extending the life of the microsd's.

2017-03-12 Thread Peter Blodow
Please, could someone explain to a poor physicist what noatime and Mutt are? Peter Am 12.03.2017 16:34, schrieb dragon: > For about three years now, I know of no other applications that has > issues with noatime other than Mutt. Everyone always says 'but it breaks > programs like Mutt' but in

Re: [Emc-users] Thoughts on extending the life of the microsd's.

2017-03-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 12 March 2017 11:34:27 dragon wrote: > For about three years now, I know of no other applications that has > issues with noatime other than Mutt. Everyone always says 'but it > breaks programs like Mutt' but in reality these days, my experience > has been that it only breaks Mutt. There

Re: [Emc-users] Thoughts on extending the life of the microsd's.

2017-03-12 Thread dragon
For about three years now, I know of no other applications that has issues with noatime other than Mutt. Everyone always says 'but it breaks programs like Mutt' but in reality these days, my experience has been that it only breaks Mutt. There used to be more applications that it caused issues with

Re: [Emc-users] Thoughts on extending the life of the microsd's.

2017-03-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 12 March 2017 08:39:03 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 11.03.17 16:42, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 11 March 2017 12:02:36 dragon wrote: > > > I doubt that you will ever hit the end of life on a quality SD > > > card, especially a large size one. The writes that you are doing, > >

Re: [Emc-users] Thoughts on extending the life of the microsd's.

2017-03-12 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 11.03.17 16:42, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 11 March 2017 12:02:36 dragon wrote: > > > I doubt that you will ever hit the end of life on a quality SD card, > > especially a large size one. The writes that you are doing, and thus > > the number of blocks, are TINY compared to what the

Re: [Emc-users] Thoughts on extending the life of the microsd's.

2017-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 11 March 2017 12:02:36 dragon wrote: > I doubt that you will ever hit the end of life on a quality SD card, > especially a large size one. The writes that you are doing, and thus > the number of blocks, are TINY compared to what the cards were > designed for... photos and videos. You

Re: [Emc-users] Thoughts on extending the life of the microsd's.

2017-03-11 Thread dragon
I doubt that you will ever hit the end of life on a quality SD card, especially a large size one. The writes that you are doing, and thus the number of blocks, are TINY compared to what the cards were designed for... photos and videos. You can also run a flash file system instead of ext4 if you

[Emc-users] Thoughts on extending the life of the microsd's.

2017-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; When I setup LCNC on the pi, one of the things I did was to make an R-Pi_nc_files directory on the rotating media of this machine, copied all the .ngc files I have generated to run on TLM to it, and cleaned out the nc_files directory on the pi, leaving only 2 files, which will