Wspr folders

[david.wi...@gmail.com]

Hi Alan.

I have just installed SparkSDR on an old pc running lubuntu to use for WSPR. It has a small mSATA SSD drive.  The drive reports it only has 34% of its life left.  Every receive cycle a file is written to the drive, decoded and then deleted.

I was wondering if it was possible to set up a small ram disk and have SparkSDR write there instead, reducing the wear on the SSD? Even better if everything could be buffered in normal RAM without having to set up the Ram disk  but I guess that would mean some mods to the WSJT-x source that are unlikely to happen. 

Many thanks for the fantastic software

73

Dave M0WID

[ahop...@googlemail.com]

Hi Dave,

this was asked before and I think someone posted a way to do it using sym links to redirect the wspr directory to another drive.

I keep meaning to make the built in level 0 wspr decoder not save to disk, the levels using wsprd are more tricky, it would probably be better to spend time making the level 0 decoder better.

73 Alan M0NNB

[david.wi...@gmail.com]

Hi Alan, thanks for that.

Adding this line into the /etc/fstab file did the trick:

tmpfs                                     /home/david/.config/m0nnb/SparkSDR2/wsprd   tmpfs   nodev,nosuid,size=800k   0 0

73

Dave M0WID