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Broken and Corrupted Raspberry Pi SD Card

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Raymii.org; By Remy van Elst 		Mail this story
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One of my Raspberry Pi's would not boot up after a reboot. The SD card was corrupted, sadly beyond repair. This article walks you through the steps I took to try to fix the SD card, including fsck, badblocks and other filesystem utilities. It also has tips to reduce the writing on the Raspberry Pi, this to save SD cards from some amount of wear and thus possible corruption.

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theBeez ·
This issue has been haunting the Pi since the beginning. Why - there have been several explanations, but none conclusive AFAIK. The maintainers have taken some measures to address it, but none sufficient IMHO. The "low-write" configuration should have been the default, I think. I don't know if the newer versions of the Pi (which uses mini-SD cards) suffer from the same problem. Personally, I think it's a bit naive to run it in a write-happy configuration. I've taken measures (like the author) suggests to minimize the number of writes and that configuration now runs for over a year 24/7 - including surviving an odd power blackout.

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