From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 18:41:05 +0100 From: Dante To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: References: <1a3157d28f8065b3a7072365eb88e464@hamnavoe.com> <21f6154e232308ece1ecffbffa3ef404@posteo.de> Message-ID: <9188fe9fbafcb22f750c2819d674c708@posteo.de> User-Agent: Posteo Webmail Subject: Re: [9fans] =?utf-8?q?running_plan9_=3A_an_ideal_setup=3F?= Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2e6e2d40-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hi Mats, Look in the /dev directory (ls /dev). If you only have the boot device and an additional USB drive (in your case, an USB-to-SD adapter), the boot device shall be /dev/sdM0 and the USB/SD device shall be /dev/sdU0.0 Kind Regards, Dante On 26.11.2014 18:16, Mats Olsson wrote: > Hi dante! > > I copied your piclone script in Plan 9 but even though I've been > digging I can't find out how to get the name of the SD card attached > to the pi on which I want to clone my setup on. So, easily put, what > command do I use to get to know that? So I wonder how to get the > device name of the clean SD in the USB card adapter. In your post > first mentioning the script you wrote: "If the device is recognized as > "sdUXX", call "piclone sdUXX". Well that is what I want to find out. > If I get that I'm ready to "rock and roll". > > Kind Greetings, > Mats > > 2014-11-18 23:09 GMT+01:00, dante : >> 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. >>>> >>>> >>>>