Snap factory reset ?

[Jamie Bennett]

On 27/09/16 at 05:58P, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Dienstag, den 27.09.2016, 20:33 +0500 schrieb Omer Akram:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Is there an equivalent of `Factory reset` on Ubuntu Core ? Probably a
> > command that would clean the writable part of the image.
> > 
> nope, there is not and unlike with the system-image images you can not
> "just wipe writable" to get back to a virgin state.
>  
> it would have to be a very selective script that decides which bits can
> stay and which bits can go since "writable" also holds the readonly
> snaps and their assertion based initial setup in the all-snaps images.
> 
> alternatively to such a script we would have to have a partition that
> holds the original snaps and assertions so writable could be formatted
> blank and "snap prepare-image" could be re-run on the empty partition
> to put the initial configuration back in place (along with the original
> snaps)
> 
> i think the latter was the long term plan but i dont think anything has
> happened in that area yet.

There is this script [1] that zyga maintains which will completely reset the
snappy state i.e. removes everything.

> ciao
> 	oi

[1] https://github.com/zyga/devtools