> ... reformat the card to an ext format and you can forget about that. According to several other messages, alignment and block size are concerns.
> So "primary store" probably means Master Copy of Your Data. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/primary#Adjective sense 2. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/master#Adjective sense 2. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/store#Noun sense 4. > ... copy it off the SD onto a hard drive to work on it, then put it > back (hopefully with care, not overwriting, and thorough flushing [1}. I never do that. I use a file on the SD just as if on a spinning hdd. To shut the machine down I don't just pull the power plug. I use shutdown so that files can be closed and devices can be unmounted. > ... when the card fails[2], you have a backup already, almost by > definition. Correct. Rsync was mentioned a few days ago. > They're cheap; I'd use two [SD cards] anyway. I have two. As mentioned at the beginning of the thread, one is about a decade old. The other purchased recently. Thx, ... P. mobile: +1 778 951 5147 VoIP: +1 604 670 0140 https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:PeterEasthope
