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USB device as root: What about updates ?

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 6:26 am
by OutOfRange
Good morning out there.

I'm very new into Linux stuff, so there's something I'm worried about:
Since I had problems with corrupted SD-Cards three times, I'm using an USB flash memory as root. It contains exactly the same file structure as there is on the (still neccessary) SD-Card.

Since the boot partition is still used from the SD-Card and the root one is on the USB memory, might there be an issue when updating the firmware, that updates which belong to the SD-Card's boot partition are not written there and instead are placed on the USB's boot partition (which in fact is useless) ?

I'm using Adafruits Occidentalis V0.2.

Best regards from Switzerland :D
Nico

Re: USB device as root: What about updates ?

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 6:43 am
by RaTTuS
make sure you mount the SD card /boot as your /boot -no need to have that on the SD card

Re: USB device as root: What about updates ?

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:02 am
by OutOfRange
Works like a charm, thank you :D