![]() ![]() The following are the steps I then followed: "/boot" was still mounted from the SD card in "/etc/fstab", but everything else was mounted from the external hard drive. ![]() It's much faster, and more spacious, than the SD card. I have been booting off of an SD card with my root file system on the external drive for months now with no problems. dev/sda8 ext4 (502.0 GiB) "future" (not mounted)Note that this does not follow the SD card partitioning (at least for the "Noobs" image) which appears to have "Recovery" as the primary partition, and in the extended partition, a partitions for "/boot", a "Settings" partition that doesn't seem to get mounted, and the root partition. In my case, I had partitioned the external drive (a 1TB Seagate "Backup Plus Portable" USB 3.0) as follows: I have successfully done the firmware upgrade without messing up my USB external drive contents or configuration. : I am not an authority on this, but my answer is a qualified "yes". ![]()
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