Hi Mats,

I posted it before; unfortunately the archive doesn't save the attached
files.
Here is the original post: http://9fans.net/archive/2014/08/78.

Please see the attachment for the script.

Cheers,
Dante

On 18.11.2014 22:28, Mats Olsson wrote:
> Hi dante!
>
> I would appreciate it a lot if you could send the "clone script" that
> you used to clone the 9pi imate to a larger SD card. Thanks
> beforehand!
>
> Kind Regards,
> Mats
>
> 2014-11-18 21:29 GMT+01:00, Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>:
>>> If you must use a rpi, you should strive to use it as a terminal, and
>>> like every other Plan 9 terminal it should use the central file
>>> server
>>> without local storage.
>>
>> That would be my advice too.  As an experiment, I set up a 9picpu
>> using
>> the SD card as local storage, working mostly as a secondary smtp and
>> imap
>> server.  After a bit less than a year, the SD card suffered a
>> catastrophic
>> failure.  When I say catastrophic, I mean I can't find any meaningful
>> data
>> anywhere in the first 120MB or so of /dev/sdM0/data ... just
>> not-quite-random
>> looking garbage.
>>
>> I can't think of any software fault that could wipe out so much of a
>> disk, with no respect for partition boundaries (the dos partition in
>> the first 64MB had not been mounted).  But I also know too little
>> about
>> the internals of SD cards to understand how they fail.  Maybe some
>> internal logical-to-physical block mapping table went bad?
>>
>> Anyway, it's just one anecdotal data point, but I wouldn't be happy
>> running any plan 9 machine with an SD card as the main filesystem.
>>
>>
>>