But I did use piclone to copy my SD to the hard drive. After you copy you have to mount the hard drive partitions and manually change your /etc/fstab. Also in /boot/cmdline.txt tell it that root is on /dev/sda2 or whatever. Worked really slick, the partition size got expanded automatically and everything.
On 7/13/17, Alan Corey <alan01...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mine looks like: > > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/sda1 /boot vfat defaults 0 2 > /dev/sda2 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1 > /dev/sda3 none swap sw 0 0 > > And when you reboot you should see it in top as an increase in swap. > > The only downside I've found is that piclone doesn't know to ignore > it. I put mine at the end of 320 GB, now I can't use piclone for > backups to SD anymore. But there's been discussion that swap will > wear out an SD fast, they're rated by read/write cyccles. > > On 7/13/17, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: >> Greetings all; >> >> I have a terabyte drive plugged into a usb port on a pi-3b. >> It has a swap partition of 2Gb allocated. >> >> I would like to edit fstab and put swap on this rotating media. >> >> I feel that with the pi's limited memory, this would be a noticeable >> speedup, when apt is doing updates in particular. I've had 200 megs of >> updates take over an hour to complete. >> >> How is this accomplished? >> >> Cheers, Gene Heskett >> -- >> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: >> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >> -Ed Howdershelt (Author) >> Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> >> >> > > > -- > ------------- > No, I won't call it "climate change", do you have a "reality problem"? - > AB1JX > Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach > -- ------------- No, I won't call it "climate change", do you have a "reality problem"? - AB1JX Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach
