[Dxspider-support] Running DX Spider on a Raspberry PI 4 USB SSD Drive

[Joe Reed]

You don’t need to write anything to the SD card.  Burn your Raspian image, get it configured to your liking, perform a SD -> SD copy, and marking the check box to create unique partUUIDs on the destination device.  It’s a standard installed app in Buster. Once done execute blkid to get the partUUID of the root file system on the SSD.  Edit the cmdline.txt file in /boot and change the rootfs partition partUUID to that of the SSD.  Once booted you are running on the SSD and the SD is doing nothing.  And a significant performance boost.  You burn the space for the unused /boot partition on the SSD, but as you pointed out it’s cheap mass storage.

Joe Reed
joe at n9jr.com



> On Dec 30, 2019, at 10:45 AM, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
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> I agree with Howard, especially as regards the SD cards. After all a 32GB Samsung Pro Endurance is currently £13 on Amazon and a 64GB one is £26. But, if you retain the smaller SD card as the root file system - on a DXSpider system it is effectively read only except for system log files - and then connect an SSD of these parts:
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