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Option to wipe data

See original GitHub issue

Etcher version: 1.4.4
Operating system and architecture: macOS x86_64
Image flashed: https://www.openmptcprouter.com/files/openmptcprouter-v0.34.2-r7288-a662d6f6bc-brcm2708-bcm2710-rpi-3-squashfs-sysupgrade.img.gz
Do you see any meaningful error information in the DevTools? No Errors. Flashing is successful.

Steps:

Flash gzip file to sdcard
Insert sdcard to Raspberry Pi 3 B+, then set password and do some configurations
Shutdown RPi, and reflash the same gzip

Results

The password (SSH and WebUI login) remain there along with the configurations. Flashing the sdcard doesn’t wipe data/configurations.

Expected

There is an option to wipe/erase the data and configuration when flashing.

Workaround

As a workaround for the current behavior, I have to flash another image (e.g. raspbian lite) file before flashing the gzip file again.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Comments:10 (7 by maintainers)

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2reactions

afrizacommented, Sep 6, 2018

Hi @lurch, thanks for the link. However it seems that the Security Options... is not available for flash-based storage including sdcard.

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lurchcommented, Sep 7, 2018

AFAIK the Raspberry Pis are only able to load their firmware (bootcode.bin, start.elf etc.) from a FAT16 / FAT32 partition, so a disk image that only has squashfs partitions indeed sounds very strange 🤷‍♂️