From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <9188fe9fbafcb22f750c2819d674c708@posteo.de> References: <1a3157d28f8065b3a7072365eb88e464@hamnavoe.com> <21f6154e232308ece1ecffbffa3ef404@posteo.de> <9188fe9fbafcb22f750c2819d674c708@posteo.de> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 18:56:29 +0100 Message-ID: From: Mats Olsson To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] running plan9 : an ideal setup? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2e727094-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 : > 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. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> > >