Raspberry Pi Disk Partitions

Disk partitions in use on the Raspberry Pi:

• sda1 - Fedora 13 with a lot of experiments ;-) - ctyler and paulw
• sda2 - Fedora 13 experiments - ctyler
• sda3
• sda5
• sda6 - Optimizing Boot - Jordan Huestis (jbhuestis)
• sda7
• sda8
• sda9

If you want a disk partition, claim it by filling in the list above.

Recommendation for copying partitions:

• Claim a partition above
• Make sure it's empty!
• Format it with mkfs -t ext3 /dev/PARTITIONID
• Mount it: mnt /dev/PARTITIONID /mnt/whatever
• Copy it: cp -x -R -p -v / /mnt/whatever
  • The -x prevents the copy from proceeding to other filesystems
• Copy /boot/cmdline.txt to /boot/cmdline.PARTITIONID
• Edit /boot/cmdline.PARTITIONID to say: root=/dev/PARTITIONID
• Whenever you want to boot from your partition: cp /boot/cmdline.PARTITIONID /boot/cmdline.txt
• Change /etc/motd in your partition to tell people which partition they're on