Stuck an 8GB microSD in the pi, booted it, updated/upgraded, installed dpkg of pidesktop-base.deb, but when I run ppp-hdclone, it has no selectable options for source or dest.
Source is blank, dest says "no items available"
I have an adata msata 128GB drive connected. Do I need to setup/format this drive first? Any steps I'm missing?
I just restarted the whole process over again, I continued to dig and think I got myself to a point where it's time to start over.
I just reflashed the latest rasbian + pixel image, and it's currently going through the apt-get update/upgrade process.
If I run your command, I get:
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ls -la /dev/sd*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Apr 10 10:09 /dev/sda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Apr 10 10:09 /dev/sda1
I tried to install gparted as I read in another thread I would need to format the ssd first, but when running "sudo startx" it would give me an error about "agent already running" or similar, seemed like it couldn't run another graphical interface while I was already in one? Not sure about that. Then I tried to run "parted" and gave it a gpt label, and tried to make a primary ext4 partition, but that didn't seem to do anything, so starting over.
Any advice?
Edit: bit more info about current status:
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 7.2G 3.7G 3.3G 54% /
devtmpfs 459M 0 459M 0% /dev
tmpfs 463M 0 463M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 463M 13M 451M 3% /run
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 463M 0 463M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1 41M 21M 21M 51% /boot
tmpfs 93M 0 93M 0% /run/user/1000
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cat /etc/fstab
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
PARTUUID=038c4707-01 /boot vfat defaults 0 2
PARTUUID=038c4707-02 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
# a swapfile is not a swap partition, no line here
# use dphys-swapfile swap[on|off] for that
I found that in the start menu -> accessories there is a "sd card copier" utility. This seemed to be exactly the same as what popped up after running "ppp-hdclone" except this one allowed me to select the source card and my ssd.
I ran this, and then ran "ppp-hdclone" closing the UI that popped up (same issue with unselectable items) but then I entered "Y" when it asked if it worked, I then restarted the Pi3. Now it seems my /dev/root is pointing to the SSD:
I did notice that the SD card still seems to need to be in the Pi or it won't boot, I assumed I could remove it, but here's the df view after this:
If you've set the 'bit' on your Raspberry Pi 3 as per the user manual for the Pi Desktop, and setup your SSD appropriately, you don't need your SDCard in the Pi 3 to boot from the SSD. So long as it has been setup properly with the image.
If ppp-hdclone is setting it up so that it copies from the sdcard and then still boots from the SDCard, but points the root file system to the SSD, this is kinda useful I guess, but superfluous.
It is correct Thomas, as by the point of view of the Pi an SSD connected via SATA to USB is a bare USB Memory stick. No matter what is the speed of the SSD itself or the data transfer available to the SATA side as the speed of data transfer is determined by the USB 2 protocol that is the physical connection between the devie and the PI.
As a matter of fact, - despite some issues related to some firmware problem - any storage device connected to the USB is saw by the PI as an external USB storage. To call it in the instructions USB memory stick is just a formal convention. Nothing to do with electronic as the interface (USB data storage) is the same for all.
Thank you for the specification Thomas. This can make the difference. So the value added to this device is a HAT accepting SSD storage directly connected as SATA. I am curious to see how if is connected internally, what real protocol does it uses for data transfer and know the bus speed.
