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Notes on Debian with a read-only root

I run several Raspberry Pis for home servers. They currently use SD cards for their root filesystems (the actual data is stored either on USB disks on NVMe disks), and I wanted a way to preserve the life of the SD cards. Can I make them more like an appliance, that just works and only rarely gets updates, rather than a normal server that’s always writing to disk.

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