The top of the script says "This only works on Ubuntu Classic"

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From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jamie Bennett
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 1:08 PM
To: Oliver Grawert <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Snap factory reset ?

On 27/09/16 at 05:58P, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Dienstag, den 27.09.2016, 20:33 +0500 schrieb Omer Akram:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Is there an equivalent of `Factory reset` on Ubuntu Core ? Probably
> > a command that would clean the writable part of the image.
> >
> nope, there is not and unlike with the system-image images you can not
> "just wipe writable" to get back to a virgin state.
>
> it would have to be a very selective script that decides which bits
> can stay and which bits can go since "writable" also holds the
> readonly snaps and their assertion based initial setup in the all-snaps 
> images.
>
> alternatively to such a script we would have to have a partition that
> holds the original snaps and assertions so writable could be formatted
> blank and "snap prepare-image" could be re-run on the empty partition
> to put the initial configuration back in place (along with the
> original
> snaps)
>
> i think the latter was the long term plan but i dont think anything
> has happened in that area yet.

There is this script [1] that zyga maintains which will completely reset the 
snappy state i.e. removes everything.

> ciao
>       oi

[1] https://github.com/zyga/devtools

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