From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:57:47 -1000 From: Tim Newsham To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <8ccc8ba40911220158o571d0f47rb96b3a54b6695efe@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <8ccc8ba40911220158o571d0f47rb96b3a54b6695efe@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: [9fans] usb disks in plan9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9e2d55ec-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Usb disks don't know how to handle partitions. > You have to use partfs IIRC or some other tool to > partition it. Hmm.. Here is what I would like to do. I would like to put a FAT32 and a fossil (or kfs) filesystem on a usb flash drive and use the FAT32 for botting and the fossil as my root filesystem. Lets say that the usb disk did support partitioning, or I used the entire usb disk as a single filesystem, is there any way to specify to mount /srv/usb's sdU4.0/data (or whatever name) as root? Or would I have to hack a mount of /srv/usb into /sys/src/9/boot and specify something like "local!/dev/sdU4.0/data"? If I use something like partfs, I would have to hack this into the /sys/src/9/boot stuff, right? Is there any long term desire to allow booting off of USB drives? Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com