Hi dante! In answer to my own question: DONE. Thanks a lot!
Kind Greetings, Mats 2014-11-26 18:56 GMT+01:00, Mats Olsson <plan9....@gmail.com>: > 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 <subscripti...@posteo.eu>: >> 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 <subscripti...@posteo.eu>: >>>> 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 <9f...@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. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >> >> >
