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Does the Venus OS provide a proper RPi shut down?

Does the Venus OS provide a proper RPi shut down? If not, how do you manage a proper shut down to avoid corrupting the OS or the SD card?

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Kevin Windrem answered ·

No, but I've added a mechanism to add one:

https://github.com/kwindrem/ShutdownMonitor

Note, you'll also need my SetupHelper package:

https://github.com/kwindrem/SetupHelper

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WOW! that looks like an incredible amount of work. But it is evidently way above my pay grade. I don't know where to start with any of that
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mrhappy answered ·

A crude way to shutdown somewhat safely is to reboot it through the menu and yank the power cord when the LED shuts off.

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