Re: [9fans] usb disks in plan9

[Iruata Souza <iru.muzgo@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net> wrote:
>> 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?

with my changes [1] to boot(8), you could just use !rc as the root and
you'd be dropped to rc(1) and could try your setup without having to
change the actual sources.

iru

[1] http://src.oitobits.net/9null
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> Is there any long term desire to allow booting off of USB drives?
>
> Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com
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