Re: Mounting NetBSD partition on voidlinux

[Sagar Acharya <sagaracharya%tutanota.com@localhost>]

$ dkctl sd0 listwedges
/dev/rsd0: no wedges configured

What are wedges? I get sectors which are 512 bytes long on physical disk.
Thanking you
Sagar Acharya
https://humaaraartha.in



21 Jun 2023, 18:24 by martin%duskware.de@localhost:

> On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 02:20:25PM +0200, Sagar Acharya wrote:
>
>> Also, linux doesn't have fsck_ffs and debian had support for ufs in ufsutils a long time ago.
>>
>> I highly recommend that for such cases you have a small standalone source which can be built for correcting such errors which can perhaps have disklabel, fsck_ffs, etc. A user can use it locally!
>>
>
> Sources are not very helpful for emergency recovery.
> Depending on your device (I don't know anything about the Lime2) you have
> various easy "binary only" recovery methods:
>
>  - most popular for all machines that can boot from USB: boot a USB install
>  image
>  - my personal favorite: boot an install kernel for your device from u-boot
>  via network
>  - boot an install kernel for your device from another SD card and swap
>  the cards after the installer starts (better only do that on ramdisk
>  based installers where / is on the memorydisk during installation)
>
> On machines with multiple possible boot sources it is easier (and you can
> prepare for disaster upfront by having a spare "known good" boot setup
> around).
>
> For us to be able to help you more, we need to know details about your setup.
> Like: what boot medium are you using, what are the other available options -
> and maybe you can get better support on the port-arm mailing list.
>
> Martin
>