Flash System Drive using Balena CLI

balenaEtcher
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Hi everyone,

Is there a way to flash system drives with the ‘balena local flash’ command? It seems the only drives we can flash with this command are the ones output in the ‘balena util available-drives’ command which ‘Does not list system drives.’ (balena CLI Documentation - Balena Documentation). I thought this should be possible given that the balenaEtcher GUI lets you flash system drivers.

Thank you,
Jared

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I found the best way of doing this is with the Etcher SDK. I don’t think it’s currently possible with Balena CLI. In particular, etcher-sdk/build/examples/multi-destination.js is able to write to any destination, just like Balena Etcher GUI.