There is an old article at http://wiki.linuxservertech.com/index.php?action=artikel&cat=9&id=173
which may help you. I wrote it when I was booting servers from USB Thumbdrives. Again, it is an older article so use some caution when you review it. But, I have servers using thumbdrives that have been running for 5+ years. Rod On 12/02/2018 04:41 AM, 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 > -- Rod Rodolico Daily Data, Inc. POB 140465 Dallas TX 75214-0465 US http://dailydata.net 214.827.2170 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
