Re: Just got a Pi1B. What can you actually do with it these days?

On 09/06/2025 at 10:27, Theo wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On 08 Jun 2025 10:18:05 +0100 (BST), Theo wrote:
>

... but the filesystem is broken.  Which is to be expected if
it wasn't properly unmounted, but for some reason the automatic
fsck-and-reboot mechanism in PiOS doesn't seem to work.

>
There isn’t actually a need to do an fsck normally. If you were using ext4
(or even ext3), that includes a journal. On reboot, you should see a
message “replaying journal”, after which the filesystem should be back to
a consistent state. This should be very quick, much quicker than a
filesystem integrity check.

 I've had times where it's the FAT partition that's been corrupted, which has
resulted in a boot failure.  I can't say for sure (because they're usually
headless and I can't SSH in to check anything) but I suspect this is
potentially a reliability problem - bad FAT partition means never booting as
far as being able to run anything.
 Theo
 

Always keep a copy of the files on the first partition of the SD card. They (copies) don't need to be on a FAT filesystem. Better even cross-copy the boot files to another machine (rsync?).
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