Quoting Reco (2019-04-21 20:29:09) > Hi. > > On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 06:02:33PM +0000, Erik Josefsson wrote: > > I have just assembled a [Teres machine] to learn how to set it up from the > > instructions on http://box.redpill.dk/ mentioned before on this list. > > > > I run into my ignorance already at instruction 2: "Locate device name of > > your microSD card". > > > > It turns out when I use completion with ls /dev/disk/by-id/ that my new USB > > microSD card reader says that my micro SD card has two names: > > > > usb-Generic_STORAGE_DEVICE_000000001532-0:0 > > It has one name. This one, to be exact. > > > usb-Generic_STORAGE_DEVICE_000000001532-0:0-part1 > > And this is the first partition of said device. > > > > This ambiguity becomes problematic when I try instruction 4) "Decompress > > and copy image onto card" with "Fast method" b): > > > > sudo sh -c 'zcat core-lime2-1.0b17.img.gz > /dev/disk/by-id/my-sd-card' > > Ugh. Why run zcat as root if you can avoid it: > > zcat core-lime2-1.0b17.img.gz | sudo tee \ > /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Generic_STORAGE_DEVICE_000000001532-0\:0 > /dev/null
Interesting - why is zcat more dangerous than tee to run as root? Using tee and throwing away its very feature (duplicating a pipe) feels excessive to me. For separating root and non-root parts I seem to recall that one can use cat. ...but the ideal for me would be a command considered safe to call as root which did _not_ involve piping tricks, to limit the risk of confusion (I still remember myself in my early days of linux typing ">" instead of "<" and accidentally wiping a file I wanted to read). (but before anyone suggests it: No, "dd" is the wrong tool here!) - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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