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From: Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] usb disks in plan9
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:32:30 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.64.0911221729100.13404@malasada.lava.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5a38f32b3b16f9577d031d0caff86c72@plan9.bell-labs.com>

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> I'm talking to nemo about what we should do to partition USB devices.

fwiw, I'm using the attached patch to /sys/src/9/pc/boot
to mount my usb drive as root partition, now.
The rootspec I'm using is "local!/dev/sdXX/fossil".
It relies on adding yet more binaries to the ramdisk: partfs,
fdisk and prep.  It calls partfs to get a partitionable device,
then runs fdisk and prep to read the existing partitions and
write them back, forcing partfs to see them.  Finally I had
to patch the "local" connect method to not replace the
existing /dev, since thats where /dev/sdXX appears.

oh yah, my simple hack just guesses two possible locations
for the USB disk to appear...

Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-23  3:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-22  5:20 Tim Newsham
2009-11-22  6:01 ` Tim Newsham
2009-11-22  7:14   ` lucio
2009-11-22  9:58   ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-11-22 17:57     ` Tim Newsham
2009-11-22 19:40       ` geoff
2009-11-23  3:32         ` Tim Newsham [this message]
2009-11-23 10:20       ` Iruata Souza
2009-11-26 12:30       ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-11-22 12:47 Francisco J Ballesteros
     [not found] <<8ccc8ba40911220158o571d0f47rb96b3a54b6695efe@mail.gmail.com>
2009-11-22 17:32 ` erik quanstrom
     [not found] <<Pine.BSI.4.64.0911220753460.13404@malasada.lava.net>
2009-11-22 18:11 ` erik quanstrom
2009-11-22 19:45   ` Tim Newsham
     [not found] <<Pine.BSI.4.64.0911220945000.13404@malasada.lava.net>
2009-11-22 20:13 ` erik quanstrom
     [not found] <<5E0F0A52-7514-430A-B066-C4D440806E08@fastmail.fm>
2009-11-26 13:01 ` erik quanstrom
2009-11-26 13:30   ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-11-26 13:51     ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-11-26 14:37       ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-11-26 13:56     ` erik quanstrom

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