[mythtvnz] CF card as system drive

[Kristian Haga Karstensen]

You should keep in mind that cf cards get worn out faster than regular hard drives, and are also quite expensive.. 

Last time I checked, a cf card (8G) was as expensive as a relatively cheap ssd, (the ssd was around 10 times the size)..

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Regards.
Kristian Haga Karstensen

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From: "Noel & Di" <noel at igrin.co.nz>
Date: Tue, Nov 17, 2009 10:00
Subject: [mythtvnz] CF card as system drive
To: "MythTV in NZ" <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>

Tortise wrote:
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> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:47 PM
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>> Hi all
>> I want to use a CF card with an IDE adapter as a system drive & use my
>> existing 2 x 250GB HDDs for the storage.
>> Currently run Mythbuntu 9.04 with 1 x 250GB drive as system / storage &
>> 1 x 250GB drive as dedicated storage (using storage groups).
>> Question. What size CF card for a frontend/backend machine using running
>> Karmic, will a 4 or 8 Gb card be enough?
>> Thanks for your learned comments!
>>
>> Noel Claydon
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> Can I suggest a good place to start is using the df command?  (Alt look under System Monitor | File Systems) to see what you are 
> using now.  In a new incompletely configured 9.10 I have about 3 G used on /dev/sda1/ so 4G might be enough, 8G would seem safer to 
> me for a FE, combined might need even more, especially if you plan to run diskless- and cascade out copies of the OS! 
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Hi Tortoise
Well can't do a df, and get a valid result because I'm not using 
Mythbuntu Karmic yet.  My Ubuntu Karmic desktop PC uses 15.2GB.
BUT I run a combination FE/BE machine with Jaunty at present for MythTV.

Noel

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