I finally looked at piclone source, it uses parted to do the partition stuff, cp to do the actual copying, the GUI is GTK. And it's written in C with popens. https://github.com/raspberrypi-ui/piclone or more directly https://github.com/raspberrypi-ui/piclone/blob/master/src/piclone.c
On 7/14/17, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > On Thursday 13 July 2017 20:43:38 Alan Corey wrote: > >> I've got a 2' x 4' sheet of that stuff in the garage, brought it home >> from the dump a few years ago, can't bring myself to cut into it. But >> good for cases and heat sinks. >> >> I guess the one feature request I'd have for Piclone is that it ignore >> swap partitions, or have an option for more manual control. Putting >> swap in the middle like you did makes more sense. >> > piclone, from your description sounds like the cat's meow. But the only > time I actually got it to run, the pair of 32Gb cards I was using, one > turned out to be a megabyte smaller, and of course it was the target > card, so it crashed out, media full, and the copy wasn't usable. I > haven't been able to even start it since, no permissions or some such > silliness. I even removed it totally, then reinstalled it, still will > not run because it cannot find any src to copy from, nor target to copy > to. Its not worth a damn to me when it thinks its running in a medialess > environment. > > What it needs is brains enough to both find the media, and to quit and > clean up when it has copied say 200 megs past the end of the data, > regardless of the capacity of the media. > > Etcher from the pine64 website looks about the same, and TBT I am > considering pre-ordering a pair of the rock64's with 4Gb of memory, > $44.95 each, which will start shipping the first of August. Its also > claiming gigabit ethernet and usb3, and a sata adaptor that plugs into > the usb3 port is a $10 bill. > > IOW, same cpu, much better gpu, and apparently lots more I/O bandwidth. > > > I haven't approached Bertho about it yet, but would send him one of them > to play with if he thinks it would bypass some of the r-pi herpes sores. > > More below. > >> On 7/13/17, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: >> > On Thursday 13 July 2017 16:59:45 Alan Corey wrote: >> >> Well, no, until you boot from the hard drive you're just using the >> >> SD card to work on the hard drive. I'm not sure what automounting >> >> is happening on your machine, I usually turn it off. Booted from >> >> the SD, do cd /mnt. If that's an error you probably don't have >> >> one, so do cd / then mkdir /mnt. >> >> >> >> Next you need to mount each of the 2 partitions on the hard drive >> >> to work on. First the DOS /boot partition >> >> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt >> >> then edit /mnt/boot/cmdline.txt which will become /boot/cmdline.txt >> >> then umount /mnt (cd out of it first if you're in it) >> >> and mount /dev/sda2 /mnt >> >> and edit /mnt/etc/fstab which will become your real fstab >> >> umount /mnt >> >> >> >> After that if you shut down and pull the SD it should boot from the >> >> hard drive. I've used my partition numbers because I don't know >> >> what yours are. Here sda1 is the DOS partition, sda2 is ext4, sda3 >> >> is swap. >> > >> > Whereas this drive is partitioned for /boot=sda1, swap=sda2, and >> > /=sda3 >> > >> > but that shouldn't make a huge diff. >> > >> > I should rsync those two partitions before I try this. Since I >> > won't have the material to mount a scale on the tailstock till next >> > week late, I need some 1/4" alu sheet for that, this might "keep me >> > out of the bars" :) Thanks Alan. > > rsync made a mess ( ignored filesystem diffs and boundaries) I needed a > big mop to clean up, so after the cleanup, I did a directory by > directory copy with the old standby, a root session of mc. > > Cheers Alan, 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
