dead SD-card every aprox. 6 months

sdetweil

i switched to using a small ssd USB stick, boot from the sd card, run from the usb stick… all the i/o goes to the ssd

BKeyport

can you explain how to do this, or provide a link to an explaination?

sdetweil

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/boot-raspberry-pi-from-usb,39782.html

really easy, copy all the data from sd to ssd, then change one line in sd config, reboot… voila

on one machine I had trouble with regularly, I had a 500gb ssd drive I wasn’t using…
for my main dev machine, I just bought a 128gig usb stick ssd. came with a cable, took 20 minutes to copy the data…spent $35 from amazon

sdetweil

@BKeyport I am NOT trying to BOOT from the usb stick, most pi’s don’t support that

BKeyport

Speak of the evil, the evil happens. Blew up my SD card.

sdetweil

@BKeyport boooooo

PHAGE.GOV

@MoreLinux so how do you edit this text file using root?

PHAGE.GOV

@MoreLinux said in dead SD-card every aprox. 6 months:

tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,nosuid,size=100m 0 0
tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,nosuid,size=30m 0 0
tmpfs /var/log tmpfs defaults,noatime,nosuid,mode=0755,size=100m 0 0
tmpfs /var/run tmpfs defaults,noatime,nosuid,mode=0755,size=2m 0 0
tmpfs /var/spool/mqueue tmpfs defaults,noatime,nosuid,mode=0700,gid=12,size=30m 0 0

could you potentilally give a more in-depth guide to doing this?

sdetweil

@PHAGE-GOV edit the file as root

if u are not root, then u must use the sudo prefix on a command

commands to edit on linux are vi, nano and (too many) others…

I use nano

SO its

sudo nano /etc/fstab

has nothing to do with MM, just basic linux skills.