The same, as long you have ~8GB RAM and your Harddisks are big and fast enough.
You just need one really fast SSD for plotting temp, minimum of 500GB and then slow drives for storing the plots, as big as you can…
You can also do it with usual drives, but then the plotting will took really long time…
Just specify the temp directory to your SSD and the plot directory to other Drive, if it’s full, change it to the next drive and so on… Every plot directory you specify will be added to the farmer config file automatically.
Hi,
How to configure to mine from different plot folders
I moved plots from another pc to rig’s hdd.
If you want to autostart your farmer, add this line to your /hive/etc/crontab.root
@reboot sleep 60; cd /usr/lib/chia-blockchain ; . ./activate ; chia start farmer
After a reboot my farmer runs, so this works for me.
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I find solution;
type chia plots add -d and directory
like this: chia plots add -d /media/tarla/tarla_1_8TB/_tarla_1
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What you also may not forget is the TBW of your SSD. Usual SSD’s have an TBW of ~200-400TB, one k32 (101GB) plot consumes about 1,328TBW, so after ~150-300 Plots your SSD will be dead…
You can check your current TBW as described here: SSD Total Bytes Written (TBW) Calculator | virten.net
Dumb question potentially - Will it continue to create new plots over and over or will you have to manually run the command to create plots each time?
I tried running chia show -s but I got the message
Connection error. Check if full node rpc is running at 8555
This is normal if full node is still starting up
Any idea what this means? I’m not getting an output like the one you had with “Current Blockchain Status: Not Synced”
It depends on the “-n 2” option, in this case he stops after creating 2 plots, but if you have space for, let’s say 20 plots, then just specify “-n 20” and then it will create 20 plots and stop then. If something goes wrong, then only the last plot is gone, by the way…
Great tutorial bro! Just a few tips for those using mining pool like HPOOL:
- There is no need to keep farmer running (and it’s forbidden too)
- There is no need to run chia commands through venv (. ./activate)
/usr/lib/chia-blockchain/venv/bin/python /usr/lib/chia-blockchain/venv/bin/chia plots create -n 2 -k 32 -b 4000 -t /home/user/chia_tmp/ -d /mnt/sdb1/chia_plots/ will work just fine!
I will share my script for parallel plotting, that runs in background with full log generation. Remember to set the number of plots, memory size, number of threads and the properly sleep time (phase 1 time plus 30 minutes is enough).
#!/bin/bash
# =============================================
# Usage: /home/user/plots.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 &
# =============================================
/usr/lib/chia-blockchain/venv/bin/python /usr/lib/chia-blockchain/venv/bin/chia plots create -k 32 -n 10 -b 4096 -r 16 -t /home/user/chia_tmp/ -d /mnt/sdb1/chia_plots/ > /home/user/plot1.log 2>&1 &
sleep 120m
/usr/lib/chia-blockchain/venv/bin/python /usr/lib/chia-blockchain/venv/bin/chia plots create -k 32 -n 10 -b 4096 -r 16 -t /home/user/chia_tmp/ -d /mnt/sdb1/chia_plots/ > /home/user/plot2.log 2>&1 &
My current plotting setups:
- HiveOS = Intel i3-7100, 8GB DDR4 and 500GB NVMe
- Debian 10 = Intel Xeon D-2141I, 32GB DDR4 RAM and 500GB NVMe
- Windows 10 = Intel i7 10750H, 16GB DDR4 RAM and 1TB NVMe
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I looked at the HPOOL Site, but I did’t get how to mine there, can you explain that a little bit?
And do you already have some rewards? With how many plots?
Hi,
This command not found for me. Can u help me?
can u share the file crontab.root?
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that is my script I use -t and -2 to separate Temp folder files
root@rig1:~/chia-blockchain# cat /home/chia/chia8.sh
#!/bin/bash
screen -d -m -S chia1 bash -c ‘cd /home/user/chia-blockchain && . ./activate && sleep 0h && chia plots create -k 32 -b 5000 -e -r 8 -u 128 -n 200 -t /mnt/chia-temp1/temp1 -2 /mnt/chia-temp1 -d /mnt/10tb-1 |tee /home/user/chialogs/chia1_1_.log’
screen -d -m -S chia2 bash -c ‘cd /home/user/chia-blockchain && . ./activate && sleep 1h && chia plots create -k 32 -b 5000 -e -r 8 -u 128 -n 200 -t /mnt/chiatest/temp2 -2 /mnt/chiatest -d /mnt/10tb-1 |tee /home/user/chialogs/chia1_2_.log’
screen -d -m -S chia3 bash -c ‘cd /home/user/chia-blockchain && . ./activate && sleep 2h && chia plots create -k 32 -b 5000 -e -r 8 -u 128 -n 200 -t /mnt/chiatest/temp3 -2 /mnt/chiatest -d /mnt/10tb-1 |tee /home/user/chialogs/chia1_3_.log’
#screen -d -m -S chia4 bash -c ‘cd /home/user/chia-blockchain && . ./activate && sleep 3h && chia plots create -k 32 -b 5000 -e -r 8 -u 128 -n 200 -t /mnt/chiatest/temp4 -2 /mnt/chiatest -d /mnt/10tb-1 |tee /home/user/chialogs/chia1_4_.log’
#screen -d -m -S chia5 bash -c ‘cd /home/user/chia-blockchain && . ./activate && sleep 4h && chia plots create -k 32 -b 5000 -e -r 8 -u 128 -n 200 -t /mnt/chiatest/temp5 -2 /mnt/chiatest -d /mnt/10tb-1 |tee /home/user/chialogs/chia1_5_.log’
#screen -d -m -S chia6 bash -c ‘cd /home/user/chia-blockchain && . ./activate && sleep 5h && chia plots create -k 32 -b 5000 -e -r 8 -u 128 -n 200 -t /mnt/chiatest/temp6 -2 /mnt/chiatest -d /mnt/10tb-1 |tee /home/user/chialogs/chia1_6_.log’
#screen -d -m -S chia7 bash -c ‘cd /home/user/chia-blockchain && . ./activate && sleep 6h && chia plots create -k 32 -b 5000 -e -r 8 -u 128 -n 200 -t /mnt/chiatest/temp7 -2 /mnt/chiatest -d /mnt/10tb-1 |tee /home/user/chialogs/chia1_7_.log’
#screen -d -m -S chia8 bash -c ‘cd /home/user/chia-blockchain && . ./activate && sleep 7h && chia plots create -k 32 -b 5000 -e -r 8 -u 128 -n 200 -t /mnt/chiatest/temp8 -2 /mnt/chiatest -d /mnt/10tb-1 |tee /home/user/chialogs/chia1_8_.log’
Hi,
does it mean that gpu mining keeps running while plotting, is there any affection to one another?
How i can load my mnemonic words ? and there are any way to install the GUI ?
I’ve been having issues with crontab. Is /hive/etc/crontab.root the right file? Also crontab is overwritten on updates.
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You seem to have experience and i find this tutorial only 80% helpfull. My gpu mining rigs have really slow cpu ddr and hdd’s so im plotting somewere else and want my riggs to farm the plotted files. Im not sure how to format drives (plotting is done in windows) and mount them correctly to hiveos linux. Also i would be great to have this running on startup (and possibly even exsist after i update hiveos). I really would appreciate if you could give a brief explanation on how to do mounting and farming in hiveos without the plotting part.
Just saw this post. To add on its a lot easier to just run Flexfarmer so there’s no need for the full node or syncing.
Hive OS runs on Linux so its possible to farm Chia using Flexfarmer while GPU mining. The link to the guide is below, check the Flexfarmer reddit post for additional details.
Note that this guide does require some familiarity with Linux and we do not officially support this as its a project done up by a community member. Hopefully someone will do up a better guide/video.
@Br4ne I have a similar set up. The official guide on farming on multiple machines is thorough.
The rest is just familiarizing yourself with using a cli. This guide also helped me regarding mounting drives automatically.
The only issue I’ve had is getting crontab working.
Hi, I have my hiveos on a 1 tb hdd. Can you explain every step in detail? Please.