Probably not. I should clarify that by a "hard reboot" I mean that 
essentially someone pulls the plug (or toggles a switch in the back). So no 
effort (to my knowledge) is made to unmount the micro SD card.

On Monday, March 19, 2018 at 3:53:29 PM UTC-7, Wulf Man wrote:
>
> does it unmount properly every time on reboot ?
>
> On 3/19/2018 3:43 PM, Troy Weber wrote:
>
> I will try that. I read up on *noatime*. 
>
>  *noatime*
>               Do not update inode access times on this filesystem  (e.g.,  for
>               faster  access on the news spool to speed up news servers). This
>               works  for  all  inode  types  (directories  too),  so   implies
>               nodiratime.
>
>
> If this works, I'll be curious why. I guess I don't know enough about 
> inodes just yet to understand why this might be a solution.
>
> On Monday, March 19, 2018 at 3:05:22 PM UTC-7, RobertCNelson wrote: 
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 4:55 PM, Troy Weber <[email protected]> wrote: 
>> > Hello! 
>> > 
>> > I have an application running on the Beaglebone Black. It runs from the 
>> eMMC 
>> > because we need to mount a blank SD card and occasionally store data or 
>> > video on the external SD card. Here are some details to jog ideas: 
>> > 
>> > using a Bealgebone black 
>> > connected to a powered hub and running 2 led strips and 1 camera 
>> > made a custom cape/shield that allows us to interface with 
>> > 
>> > an RGB button 
>> > a 16x2 char lcd 
>> > an optically isolated relay module 
>> > 
>> > the relay module runs a solenoid circuit (in which I'm currently 
>> debugging 
>> > the need for a flyback diode) 
>> > the SD card is mounted using /etc/fstab with the line /dev/mmcblk0p1 
>> > /media/sd auto auto,nofail,user,dmask=022,fmask=111 0 0 
>> > SD cards are inexpensive and found here: 
>> > 
>> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00WUCNGVQ/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
>>  
>> > 
>> > My application is writing files to the SD card only on certain 
>> occasions 
>> > during which the Beaglebone will not be hard-rebooted. However, it will 
>> be 
>> > hard-rebooted (and the application started by systemd on next boot) as 
>> a 
>> > means of shutting it down. 
>> > 
>> > The problem is that I've recently began to discover issues with the 
>> blank SD 
>> > card on next boot after a hard reboot. For a short time I can touch and 
>> > write vim files on the card just fine. Once I start up the node.js 
>> program, 
>> > part way through it complains about the SD card being read-only. From 
>> then 
>> > on I cannot touch or vim files anymore. So I reformat the card and copy 
>> the 
>> > configuration files back on. I've noticed that one of my configuration 
>> files 
>> > is chopped short. 
>> > 
>> > Here are some things I've tried and intend to try: 
>> > 
>> > have tried 
>> > 
>> > removing the power to the hub which seemed to be back-powering the BBB 
>> > (still fails on reboot) 
>> > stopping the program that writes files entirely (still fails on reboot) 
>> > 
>> > intend to try 
>> > 
>> > writing the configuration files elsewhere (on the eMMC for example) 
>> > better SD cards 
>> > 
>> > In the meantime, any ideas? 
>>
>> check the actual mount options, and if not enabled add "noatime".. 
>>
>> Regards, 
>>
>> -- 
>> Robert Nelson 
>> https://rcn-ee.com/ 
>>
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