On Tue, 26 May 2020 19:14:18 +0100, antlists wrote: > > That's the Gentoo version that I'm using. But I'm looking for a way > > to make it bullet-proof to having the plug pulled. > > Don't use an SD card? Seriously, pulling the power on an SD card has > been known to corrupt it beyond recovery. BUT.
Mounting the card with sync will significantly reduce the likelihood of corruption, at a cost of reduced life. > Is the big worry that the home directory will get corrupted etc etc? I > don't know if you can partition an SD card, but look at doing a > kiosk-style install with the OS protected and read-only. Then look at > sticking a loopback device on top of home, so that any changes exist > only in ram, and are lost on shutdown. Hopefully, that means you now > have a system that can boot and run off a write-protected SD card :-) This will mitigate the reduced life as you are hardly writing to the card. Booting from a read-only / has caused problems for me in the past, because of the inability to write to /etc. -- Neil Bothwick Politically Incorrect -- and damn proud of it!
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