[mdlug] Any interest in managing RPI images?

[Aaron Kulkis]

Anyway, maintain a pristine version of the media. Keep log files and all
data on other partitions. Preferably make the hostname file a symbolic link
to a file in each host's data partition.

When you update the pristine copy, then use dd or tar to replicate it to
your working copies.

Any config files, like hostname, self-ip addresses, etc, which normally
aren't used before other filesystems are mounted, should have the contents
stored in each host's data partition, symbolically linked from the standard
location to the content on the data partition.


On Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 01:08 Drew <drew4096 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I already knew about dd. I was hoping 'did' was a replacement with
> more options, like dcfldd. I did note from the man page on Lubuntu
> 20.04 that dd now has status=progress as an option.
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