Will this tool work with other systems? ie Orange Pi images? #150
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sdm assumes that it's operating on RasPiOS IMGs, but it doesn't check that in any way. You're certainly welcome to try it. If you run into problems, they may or may not be fixed depending on the nature of the problem, since I don't have an Orange Pi (or any Non-Raspberry Pi boards, for that matter) for testing. |
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Great, I'll test and make sure to report back with my findings. Thank you @gitbls |
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Did you ever try this, and what were the results? Thx |
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I was about to ask a similar thing, that might have a connection to orangepi. The armbian image for orangepi 5 for example uses GPT as partition table, not MBR. Does this tool ever change the partition table or does it simply always copy what is done on the img file? |
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sdm only messes with partitions and partition tables under certain circumstances, and it's always done using
In all of the above operations sdm does not care at all about the partition table type, it only looks at the information on the partitions themselves. I think the bigger question is whether the operations that sdm does to fulfill your requests will work on your non-RasPiOS. sdm assumes that any files it uses are in the locations as they are on Debian, which is what RasPiOS is based on. It also assumes IOW if your distro is different from RasPiOS but you don't ask sdm to do anything that would uncover those differences, it should just work, as long as the host OS on which you're running sdm has these packages: systemd-container qemu-user-static binfmt-support parted It's easy enough to try sdm. Installing it doesn't spew stuff around the system, it's all in /usr/local/sdm, plus the link /usr/local/bin/sdm which points to /usr/local/sdm. Why don't you simply give it a try? EDIT: I just downloaded Armbian_23.11.1_Orangepi5_bookworm_legacy_5.10.160.img.xz, and it indeed has a GPT partition table: As demonstrated above, sdm can operate on the IMG. Please give it a workout and LMK how it goes. |
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I might have some insight to that. LOOP = device path (I have the img file looped, hence my path is something like When I expand partitions I just remove the partition, then recreate it and use
You know what, how about "if you try mine, I try yours". xD (I am one of those guys that just throws in a ssh file and a userconf.txt on the img file and I'm done) Edit Edit 2
I would love to help out, but I do not own a opi5 either. 😢 |
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I believe I'm having a different issue with resizepart than you might have seen. The error I'm getting is I will investigate further, and if your solution is THE solution, I'll use it, but I'm not overly optimistic. So, you asked about the Orange pi5 but don't have one? Please enlighten me as to the purpose of your query. |
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This was a while ago but:
I think that was the exact error I also got and could not figure out why. Could also be I relate it to another error in my head, so take my info with a grain of sand. Also, the bytes are not the same in your BYT data. ALSO!! Edit You still run parted directly towards Just an extra thought since I do not know how you loop it.
2 Reasons.
Both of above are now solved (for me at least, but maybe YOU appreciate the heads up). :) |
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OK, got shrink working using resizepart. I had a couple of errors, but once I fixed those found that I needed your Update coming this week with this and several other improvements. |
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You are more than welcome. Now you also know of a script that does not care what os is in use. |
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I'd like to use this for other system images on more boards
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