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Daemon Synchronisation to micro SD card? Yae or Nae

ctrl_room posted this 6 years ago

ctrl_room | 6 years ago

Hi All

I installed Monero for the first time yesterday within the Ubuntu O/S.

Everything was going well until synchronising the daemon reached 27GB on my internal SSD.

I had no idea it was going to be so big and I hadn't allotted sufficient drive space.

I formatted a Kingston 64GB mSD card with 'ext4' file system and copied the existing files within .bitmonero to the root of the mSD card.

I additionally changed the 'Blockchain Location' and pointed towards the mSD card.

I didn't make any other changes in the software.

Initially I faced some issues trying to continue the daemon synchronisation getting a

Error: Couldn't connect to daemon: 127.0.0.1:18081

But this seems to have somehow gone and the synchronisation is continuing, albeit mighty slow.

Is there anything I need to consider, that I am perhaps overlooking, by doing this?

Monero periodically freezes (goes grey), then instead of 'Blocks Remaining:' being 72701 the progress bar turns green and says something much lower like 28.

Then the Network Status simply says 'Connected' giving the appearance the synchronisation is complete.

But after a minute or two the Synchronisation starts again with 'Blocks Remaining:' being 72585.

I am wondering if it's working properly.

Every time the Synchronisation restarts is gives a lower number of remaining block to the previous sync restart.

Because I'm a complete novice to cryptocurrencies, I just want to ensure this is normal behaviour before I start using my new Monero Wallet and looking into mining basics.

Thanks in advance.

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flyup edited 6 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: 0 | Link [ - ]

Syncing to your SD card is possible, however, the process will be slowed as the headers still need read/write access to your card. It will be a bottleneck as the blockchain is collated on your disk.

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ctrl_room posted 6 years ago Weight: 0 | Link [ - ]

Thanks flyup.

I've stopped using the GUI for the sync in favour of a terminal.

It's still slow, and this is probably a consequence of what you pointed out.

The good thing is it's not crashing, or stopping and starting, and I can actually see what's happening.

The SD card measure is only temporary.

When I get the hang of what I am doing I shall buy a larger internal SSD or backup one of the existing partitions to an external drive to make space.

Thanks for your assistance.