The SD card (mmcblk0p2) is refreshed as a live boot-fallback clone of NVMe root after pushes, but that rsync was being hand-typed each time and its exclude list didn't cover /etc/fstab. That let it clobber the SD's own fstab with the NVMe's PARTUUIDs, breaking SD-only boot (only mounts correctly if the NVMe happens to also be present). Also excludes /etc/machine-id and /var/log so the clone doesn't inherit the NVMe's identity/journal history. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>