Advanced users • Re: Image File Utilities

I'm getting this issue where I cannot mount the boot partition...

Code:

frey  🌐 aerpi in ~/.cron/rootλ sudo image-backup --options "-vP" /media/frey/RPISD/RPi.imgmount: (hint) your fstab has been modified, but systemd still uses       the old version; use 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload.mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/tmp/img-backup-mnt/boot’: Bad messageUnable to make BOOT partition mount point

I've tried

Code:

mkdir -p /tmp/img-backup-mnt/boot

, which successfully makes the directory, but running the script afterwards still fails with the same message.

You shouldn't create /tmp/img-backup-mnt/ (delete it).

What is mounted on /media? If it's not a local device, try using a USB flash drive instead.

That's the best I can offer without more details of your environment.

All good, it gets deleted each time image-backup runs and errors out anyway.

It's a single 256gb microSD card in the RPi's SD reader (I boot from SSD), which has two partitions: first is an empty 32mb FAT partition, second is a ~256gb exFAT partition which is mounted to the RPISD folder and contains the image.

Statistics: Posted by Freymotifs — Mon Dec 29, 2025 12:33 pm

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