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Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes: |
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> Bear in mind the limited write lifetime of flash memory. Don't put /var |
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> or /tmp on such a card if you can avoid it. |
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Well, I'm not sure any other alternatives are attractive? Unless |
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I find a way to mount those partitions off of a usb stick, or |
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some other idea? |
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Since they are not frequently updated and have minimal installed software |
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(iptables on firewalls and DNS on DNS servers) accompanied by the |
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fact that most devices have internal wear leveling; it should take |
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many years to reach the write cycle limits? |
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> http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=10448 |
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very cool! exactly what I could not find. |
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> > Issue 4. Cloning or Duplicating. |
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> > As many of you know, installations can be quite time consuming, |
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> > and challenging on old PCs. So what I intend to do is take |
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> > and currently running machine and stream the contents to |
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> > another machine with a CF burner or pull the CF card from |
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> > a machine that is in good shape but shutdown and duplicate it. |
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> Why not copy the contents of a card to a hard disk somewhere? That way |
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> you don't have to disturb a running machine to make a copy. |
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> > DD, cpio, scp (example syntax) in a step by step)? |
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> You could dd the card to a file and use the same file every time you need |
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> a new card. |
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Um I do not mean to be a pain, but could you provide a little bit |
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of pseudo-syntax? Assume I have shutdown a 4 GB CF firewall card |
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and moved it to a reader/writer on another machine. First I need |
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to format the raw (new) 4GB CF card from a reader. |
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/media/sdb1 shows up, but when I run 'fdisk /media/sdb1' I get: |
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last_lba(): I don't know how to handle files with mode 40755 |
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You will not be able to write the partition table. |
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In the past I have formated the CF cards on the new machine being built, |
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but I need help figuring out how to do this, from a CF reader/writer |
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on another machine (thus avoiding a traditional install) ? |
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James |