[arm-allstar] SD Cards

[Willem Schreuder]

On Thu, 3 Dec 2015, Doug Crompton wrote:

> Also as I mentioned on the web page unless you have a compelling reason 
> it is NOT a good idea to expand the filesystem on these cards after 
> installing the image. Doing so makes total image backup a time consuming 
> process especially on 16GB and larger cards and does nothing to improve 
> performance or longevity.

Doug, while I agree regarding performance and backup, I don't know if a 
agree about longevity.  At least in principle, wear leveling should give 
you a longer life on a larger file system for the same volume of data 
written, should it not?  What I will grant you is that the SD cards in 
rPi's that I have lost usually was not due to wear, but due to power 
transient and those kinds of catastrophic events.  However, all else being 
equal I think there is a case to be made that increasing the file system 
size.  Am I missing something?

73 -Willem

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