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Re: How to flash (was: Re: How to backup)

 

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 6:59 AM, Matthias Apitz <guru@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> El día Wednesday, March 23, 2016 a las 03:36:44PM +0200, Zoltán Balogh
> escribió:
>
> > If you do not explicitly request the ubuntu-device-flash to wipe (with
> > --wipe) the device  then the /userdata is not touched by the flashing.
> >
> > ...
>
> I have checked the man page of the ubuntu-device-flash in
>
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man1/ubuntu-device-flash.1.html
>
> and this supports what you say about '--wipe'. But, some days ago I have
> had to flash a device and it seems that '--bootstrap' removes the
> content from /userdata too, even if the above man page does not give any
> indication about this. Any hints?
>
> With more time, I will check a flashing again for this.
>

Hi Matthias,

yes, bootstrap implies wipe, as you can see from
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~phablet-team/phablet-tools/udbflash/view/head:/main.go#L143

Cheers,
Andrea


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