Oh, and for what its worth, the working example I setup on that blog post, had a swap disk enabled on the external USB drive as well. It works very nicely and all, but for convince I personally prefer to run my rootfs off a NFS share.
The reason is simple. I can modify file 3 different ways like this. 1) directly from the BBB 2) from the NFS share host. 3) from a Windows 7( or any OS for that matter ) dev machine using Samba and mapped network drives. there is at least a 4th option, using WinSCP from a Windows machine, but I prefer using "native" tool as much as possible. So I stick with mapped network drives. On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 5:47 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > HI William, why not put the whole rootfs on an external USB drive ? > > > http://www.embeddedhobbyist.com/debian-tips/beaglebone-black/beaglebone-black-usb-boot/ > > If anything is unclear feel free to ask here, as I've derided long time > ago to disable comments on my blog site. > > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 12:06 PM, William Pretty Security < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello All; >> >> >> >> I have been going thru uSD cards because I am using Cloud9 as a local IDE. >> >> The number of writes performed by Cloud9 seems to be trashing the uSD >> card. >> >> >> >> So I thought I would re-install Cloud9 on an External flash drive. >> >> >> >> I modified /ext/fstab so that the drive is automatically mounted: >> >> >> >> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 >> >> /dev/mmcblk0p2 / auto errors=remount-ro 0 1 >> >> /dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot/uboot auto defaults 0 0 >> >> /dev/sda1 /media/disk1 vfat auto,umask=0 0 0 <----------- >> >> >> >> So now if I go to /media I see: >> >> >> >> root@ubuntu-armhf:/media# ls -l >> >> total 28 >> >> drwx------ 10 ubuntu ubuntu 16384 Jan 1 1970 BOOT >> >> drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 8192 Jan 1 1970 disk1 >> >> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 10 17:38 rootfs >> >> >> >> What I need to know is, to access “/dev/sda1/media/disk1” do I just add >> this to $PATH: >> >> >> >> PATH=$PATH:/media/disk1 >> >> >> >> Thanks; >> >> >> >> Bill >> >> >> >> >> http://www.packtpub.com/building-a-home-security-system-with-beaglebone/book >> >> >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
