Interesting, after googling NFS I'm hooked. But I've been saving my project via a remote git repository. What I'm really trying to preserve is all the tweaks like wifi settings, cron jobs, services... and those are all distributed around the fs, and I don't remember all what I've done.
I'm still gonna try that nfs thing though, that sounds genius. On May 7, 2016 11:37 PM, "William Hermans" <[email protected]> wrote: > I personally do all this manually using dd, and fdisk in Linux. As I > prefer to use Linux tools, for Linux "stuff". But it can get a bit > confusing if you're not experienced with the tools. > > dd to write zero's to the first 10M of the disk. Wipes out the MBR, and > partition table. Easily. > then dd the new image to the sdcard > Save older small sdcard, mount on your Linux x86 machine, as well as > install openssh-server on this machine if not already installed. > On the x86 machine place files that you want to keep in a regular users > home directory. > When the BBB is running the new image, install sshf, mount the x86's > regular user home directory, and copy files over that you require. > > > *Another option:* > From your x86 Linux machine run an NFS share, which is then always > mounted to a directory inside the BBB's regular users home directory. Keep > all projects, and file here. That way, when it's time to move to a > different sdcard, or the sdcard gets old and dies. You still have the data > safe on your NFS server. Not to mention this will help keep the BBB from > filling up in the first place, and writing data to an NFS share all the > time, is much better than writing to an sdcard. All the time. > > On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 10:27 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> *Just to be clear, windisk imager can rewrite over a 16GB uSD card that >>> already has an other image on it?* >>> >> >> If the image that's on it is unimportant, just format the disk first. >> Then write the new image to it. >> >> On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 10:26 PM, Kory De Angelo <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Just to be clear, windisk imager can rewrite over a 16GB uSD card that >>> already has an other image on it? >>> >>> -- >>> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "BeagleBoard" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/ff8e0902-6fa0-4808-bf0c-597ffc243753%40googlegroups.com >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/0I69ONdFgZM/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CALHSORoPU1V-Mc8Ts%3DKukADbTMsRHGrycEfb7Tcx%2BZbXeJgQLA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CALHSORoPU1V-Mc8Ts%3DKukADbTMsRHGrycEfb7Tcx%2BZbXeJgQLA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CAOYM%2BmsxFZTf-ksxOZbpr-x3A2Fg2%2BDNgMvZRoRp77KiBVxq0A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
