Shutdown Options

What is the best way to properly shut down my RPi4 without the risk of blowing the SD Card?

So far I have only come up with the option to SSH into the Pi and use the poweroff command, but that’s almost what we Germans call ‘von hinten durch die Brust ins Auge’, i.e. doing something in a very complicated way that should be easily achievable :face_with_open_eyes_and_hand_over_mouth:

Any easier alternatives?

I tend to power it off the old fashioned way of disconnecting the power supply

When I first started testing the firmware, ext4 caused issues with corruption, but now it’s a SquashFS-based version OpenWRT so the filesystem is generally read-only, which has way less risk of corruption compared to a ext4 when powering off and generally corruption shouldn’t be super common

If it’s desired I can add a Shut Down option to the app under reset options to save using the SSH method if desired?

I think that would be a good way to deal with it.

I’ve had my fair share of SD Cards going kaputt on Raspberry Pis over the years and I’m pretty sure the question would come up again.

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