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>You absolutely cannot just pull the power cord out while booted up because the SD card might be in the process of writing and you'll easily corrupt it. False.
by fudged71 12y ago
>You absolutely cannot just pull the power cord out while booted up because the SD card might be in the process of writing and you'll easily corrupt it.
False. This depends on the software.
We developed a system for the PrintToPeer Raspberry Pi OS that uses the RAMdisk for read/write operations, and makes the rest of the operating system read only.
You can uplug it whenever and nothing is corrupted.
- tdicola 12y agoSure, but 99% of Pi users are going to use the default Raspbian OS and won't have the luxury of a ramdisk and read-only filesystem.