[j-nsp] Will CF sizes other than 256M work ok?

[Michael Loftis]

--On September 23, 2005 12:54:22 PM -0700 Joe McGuckin <joe at via.net> wrote:

> I've noticed recently that 256M CF cards seem to becoming obsolete. 512M
> was the smallest I've seen in our local camera & electronics stores
> recently.
>
> If I needed to pick up an emergency replacement for a failing CF card,
> would a 512M card work ok? I think that partitioning and rebooting from
> the larger card would work, but I wonder about a subsequent "request
> system snap" - would that try to copy a 512M /root partition from the CF
> onto the existing 256M disk /altroot partition ?

You can use other sizes, we're using a 512MB.  I'm not sure about the 
request system snapshot behavior as we repartitioned ours (JunOS figured 
out the correct sizes)