Project 365 #44: 130215 A Little Squeeze
In a bizarre parallel with Keith, I too have been mucking about with hard drives today, or more accurately SD cards.
Tech followers may be aware that a new Raspberry Pi was launched recently, with double the RAM and a quad core processor, for essentially the same money! Given the opportunity to massively upgrade my mail server for thirty quid, it seemed daft not to.
On Monday it arrived. That was when I realised that it used a slightly different case. No worries, only a fiver, so one got ordered. Then I realised that it uses a different media type, using microsd instead of sd. I didn't have any spare micro sd cards, so no worries, only a fiver, one got ordered.
Then I realised that I was mistaken, and that the card in the current mail server is a 32Gb, not a 16Gb. That shouldn't have been a problem, as it was only using about 4gb, but the partition was getting mashed when I resized it, and I thought that rather than arsing about, the easiest thing to do was get a 32Gb card. No worries, only a tenner, so one got ordered.
That takes us to tonight, when I discovered that the capacity of my 32Gb microsd card is actually smaller than the capacity of my 32Gb SD card, so one wouldn't clone on to the other without resizing after all.
Gparted has resized the partition to make it a touch smaller - a process taking two hours. As I type, dd is still cloning the data from one card to another, a process that has been running for half an hour and counting.
I do hope it's worth it. :)
Project 365 #44: 130215 A Little Squeeze
In a bizarre parallel with Keith, I too have been mucking about with hard drives today, or more accurately SD cards.
Tech followers may be aware that a new Raspberry Pi was launched recently, with double the RAM and a quad core processor, for essentially the same money! Given the opportunity to massively upgrade my mail server for thirty quid, it seemed daft not to.
On Monday it arrived. That was when I realised that it used a slightly different case. No worries, only a fiver, so one got ordered. Then I realised that it uses a different media type, using microsd instead of sd. I didn't have any spare micro sd cards, so no worries, only a fiver, one got ordered.
Then I realised that I was mistaken, and that the card in the current mail server is a 32Gb, not a 16Gb. That shouldn't have been a problem, as it was only using about 4gb, but the partition was getting mashed when I resized it, and I thought that rather than arsing about, the easiest thing to do was get a 32Gb card. No worries, only a tenner, so one got ordered.
That takes us to tonight, when I discovered that the capacity of my 32Gb microsd card is actually smaller than the capacity of my 32Gb SD card, so one wouldn't clone on to the other without resizing after all.
Gparted has resized the partition to make it a touch smaller - a process taking two hours. As I type, dd is still cloning the data from one card to another, a process that has been running for half an hour and counting.
I do hope it's worth it. :)