What size SD card do I really need?

[G4CTP]

When I built my pi-star configuration (on a Pi Zero W), I grabbed the first SD card I could lay my hands on, which happened to be 2 GB.

I now realise that 8 GB is recommended... but the thing is, it seems to be working fine.

Should I be worried?

[KG6RUT]

it will be difficult to do some updates/upgrades on a 2GB card, at least thats what I found when using one. Since it was to tight, I now have both a 4GB and an 8GB. Since they are so cheap, just get something bigger.

[MW0MWZ]

Pi-Star will run on anything the Pi you are using will support, from 2GB and up, honestly its getting hard to keep it in 2GB these days, I recommend a 4GB card, anything more than that will be wasted.

I personally use SanDisk cards and rate them well, beware of fakes tho, make sure you buy from a reputable seller.

Card quality matters more than getting anything larger than 4GB, that said I think the sweet spot price wise is about 16GB at the moment (depends where you are in the world).

[G4CTP]

Thanks for the responses. Looks like I'll need to expand.

Assumedly the best process is to back up my current pi-star config, then build a fresh image onto the new SD, then restore the config.

[G4CTP]

Rummaging around a bit deeper into the drawer... and I came up with a 32 Gbyte SD. That should do the trick.

Upgraded successfully.

[G8SEZ]

Rummaging around a bit deeper into the drawer... and I came up with a 32 Gbyte SD. That should do the trick.

Extra logging space...

[G8SEZ]

Extra logging space...

Logging space is limited to 64MB, and when it gets filled up completely all hell breaks loose and weird things start to happen.

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Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs            64M  5.3M   59M   9% /var/log

Needs something to move this to non-tmpfs storage then, I had not thought about this limit before.