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Daemon
Daemon

Reputation: 1675

Flashing an image vs copying files

I would like to understand how is flashing an image on device or partition is different from copying same set of files to the device?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3516

Answers (1)

Frant
Frant

Reputation: 5925

This is different because being able to copying files does require:

  • a partition to be defined on the drive/eMMC/USB key/SD card,
  • a file system to have been created/formatted in one partition.

When you flash an image, you flash all of the partitions, file systems, files in the file system that were existing on the drive/eMMC/USB key/SD card the image was created from.

Bottom line, you cannot copy files on a blank drive/eMMC/USB key/SD card, but you can write an image into it.

Upvotes: 3

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