# How to force rootfs-image instead of delta update **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [February 11, 2021, 11:17am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/how-to-force-rootfs-image-instead-of-delta-update/3204 "2021-02-11T11:17:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bender](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/bender/32/847_2.png) [@bender](https://hub.mender.io/u/bender)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 11:17am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/how-to-force-rootfs-image-instead-of-delta-update/3204/1 "2021-02-11T11:17:14Z")
Hi… I have uploaded releases 1 and 2 both as rootfs-image and as delta. I have manually edited the filesystem of a machine with version 1 and now I want to update it to 2. Deployment automatically chooses the delta release and fails due to checksum error. I don’t want to delete the delta releases as they are actively used by people. Can I force the rootfs-image instead of delta any other way? ---
**Author:** ![lluiscampos](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/lluiscampos/32/112_2.png) [@lluiscampos](https://hub.mender.io/u/lluiscampos)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 2:45pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/how-to-force-rootfs-image-instead-of-delta-update/3204/2 "2021-02-11T14:45:00Z")
There is no out-of-the box functionality to “force” the rootfs-image instead of the delta artifact. The workaround that I can think of, is: - make a copy of this release-2 rootfs artifact to another file - modify the artifact name (mender-artifact modify -n release-2-copy) - upload this new artifact to the server and make a deployment for that device that you manually edited the filesystem The resulting rootfs shall be the same as for release-2 (iow, same checksum) so it should work fine whenever you want to deploy release-3 to all your fleet (the Mender server will select the delta artifact if available). ---
**Author:** ![bender](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/bender/32/847_2.png) [@bender](https://hub.mender.io/u/bender)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 3:38pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/how-to-force-rootfs-image-instead-of-delta-update/3204/3 "2021-02-11T15:38:21Z")
Thank you.