Official Raspberry Pi Respin

[timkb4cq]

Sorry, that was a typo

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e2fsck -f/dev/mmcblk1p2

e2fsprogs (which contains e2fsck) should be installed already.

[Jerry3904]

OK. But there is no such entry for mmcblk1p2, just mmcblk1, and if I try to use that I get rejected:

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orangepi@orangepi5:~$ sudo e2fsck -f /dev/mmcblk1p2
e2fsck 1.46.2 (28-Feb-2021)
e2fsck: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/mmcblk1p2
Possibly non-existent device?

I do see this under /media:

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/media/orangepi/rootfs/

Before I destroy my system, should I use that instead?

[timkb4cq]

I honestly don't know.
I have my Orange Pi set up with schroots for compiling arm64 & armhf packages as needed and have been reluctant to experiment too much lest I mess up a working system.

[Jerry3904]

A nice compliment today on the RPi Forum:

Enfin, pour ceux qui recherchent un système avec beaucoup de programmes et d'options, MxLinux est vraiment top!

"Finally, for those looking for a system with lots of programs and options, MxLinux is really top-notch!"

France has currently the 4th most downloads among the 86 countries listed on the SF page.

[chrispop99]

A nice compliment today on the RPi Forum:

Enfin, pour ceux qui recherchent un système avec beaucoup de programmes et d'options, MxLinux est vraiment top!

"Finally, for those looking for a system with lots of programs and options, MxLinux is really top-notch!"

That is great!

Chris

[skallal]

I got my Pi 4 w/ 4 GB RAM performance increased with a left over Samsung sata 250 GB SSD. Now booting from the SSD. Bought a sata to USB 3 adapter and it's a definite improvement over an sd card! Increased the swap file to 2 GB to compensate for lower RAM.

So far the SSD is holding out as it's at least 10 years old and I'll need to keep an eye on it for failures. It's probably not as fast as newer ones. NVMe is only an option for the Pi 5 AFAIK.

Curious if the other users and testers were using sd cards or SSDs? My Pi is at the low end of the supported hardware spectrum.

[chrispop99]

I got my Pi 4 w/ 4 GB RAM performance increased with a left over Samsung sata 250 GB SSD. Now booting from the SSD. Bought a sata to USB 3 adapter and it's a definite improvement over an sd card! Increased the swap file to 2 GB to compensate for lower RAM.

So far the SSD is holding out as it's at least 10 years old and I'll need to keep an eye on it for failures. It's probably not as fast as newer ones. NVMe is only an option for the Pi 5 AFAIK.

Curious if the other users and testers were using sd cards or SSDs? My Pi is at the low end of the supported hardware spectrum.

I've used a Pi 4 with both SD cards and SSDs. The biggest benefit of SSDs IMO is consistent performance across makes. USB 3 is the bottleneck of the Pi, and even older or cheap SSDs are faster than that.

SD cards vary enormously in performance, even between different capacity ones from the same maker's range. The fastest SD cards are almost as good as the SSDs vis USB 3.

Chris

[dolphin_oracle]

Usb3 stick. Not a ssd. Still faster than the sd cards I’ve tried.

[Jerry3904]

On my Pi 5 I used the command

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sudo rpi-eeprom-config --edit

to check the boot order (only used "--edit" b/c I thought I needed to change it) and saw it was by default:

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BOOT_ORDER=0xf641

The RPi Documentation explains that that means (reading from R to L) first boot to SD, then USB, then NVMe. So I used RPi Card Copier to flash my running MX Linux install to a minimal format USB (SanDisk Ultra Fit), then rebooted with the SD removed: nada except a flashing red power button.

Booted back to the SD, ran rpi-config > Advanced Options > Boot Order and selected "B1" for SD first and NVMe or USB. Rebooted without the SD and all works as expected. Opens up all sorts of options: recovery, trying another OS, etc.

[skallal]

One tool absent from this respin is MX Snapshot. I assume this is because a whole drive can be easily cloned? My current usage is about 14.5 GB on a 250 GB SSD or 6%.

I never fully understood MX Snapshot on the standard x64 build. There's a YouTube video singing its praises.