Re: [9fans] running plan9 : an ideal setup?

[Mats Olsson <plan9.meo@gmail.com>]

Hi dante!

In answer to my own question: DONE. Thanks a lot!

Kind Greetings,
Mats

2014-11-26 18:56 GMT+01:00, Mats Olsson <plan9.meo@gmail.com>:
> Hi!
>
> So "piclone sdU0.0" would be right? I have the script in
> /usr/glenda/home does that matter?
>
> Yours Sincerely,
> Mats
>
>
> 2014-11-26 18:41 GMT+01:00, Dante <subscriptions@posteo.eu>:
>> 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 <subscriptions@posteo.eu>:
>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>
>>
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