> 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...

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