Lint & update factory-settings, min-sd, cp-sd, zip-sd + add zip-json-sd to generate .json snippets for Raspberry Pi Imager

[holta]

Ah well, as an aside min-sd and cp-sd still fail when an SD card sleeve is used (sleeves that allow a microSD to be inserted into a computer with a regular-sized SD slot).

As these sleeves generally lead to a partition name containing a 2-character suffix, as seen in this lsblk output:

mmcblk0     179:0    0  59.6G  0 disk
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1    0   256M  0 part
└─mmcblk0p2 179:2    0  59.4G  0 part

Whereas both scripts currently expect something like: (this is what arises when a typical USB card reader is used, instead of a sleeve)

sdb      8:16   1  59.6G  0 disk
├─sdb1   8:17   1   256M  0 part
└─sdb2   8:18   1  59.4G  0 part

Conclusion — the manual workaround is to manually hack both min-sd and cp-sd when using an SD card sleeve, on these lines...

• https://github.com/holta/iiab-factory/blob/sd-tools/box/rpi/min-sd#L94
• https://github.com/holta/iiab-factory/blob/sd-tools/box/rpi/cp-sd#L61

...changing this...

DEVICE=${PARTITION:0:-1}

...to this...

DEVICE=${PARTITION:0:-2}

Related:

• Let's get 3+3 IIAB images published for RPi [Raspberry Pi Imager] iiab#2446
• Change to imager design iiab#3060

[jvonau]

This is the same shortcomings pi-clone has when to it comes to writing a SD card image or loopback device, both use the p1 p2 for the partition naming causing pi-clone being only to write directly to the device, and not an image file as the partition naming is different.

[holta]

This is the same shortcomings pi-clone has when to it comes to writing a SD card image or loopback device, both use the p1 p2 for the partition naming causing pi-clone being only to write directly to the device, and not an image file as the partition naming is different.

I did not know.

Thanks for pointing this out.

(Is there a ticket at https://github.com/raspberrypi-ui/piclone or https://github.com/nwright-mcc/piclone_cmd mentioning this possibly?)

Self-Reminder: Almost 2 years ago @georgejhunt fixed up piclone_cmd to work better on arm7l and aarch64:

• https://github.com/georgejhunt/piclone_cmd
• https://github.com/iiab/iiab-admin-console/blob/master/roles/cmdsrv/tasks/main.yml#L36-L41
• https://download.iiab.io/packages/piclone_cmd_armv7l
• https://download.iiab.io/packages/piclone_cmd_aarch64

[jvonau]

raspberrypi-ui/piclone#7
raspberrypi-ui/piclone#8
raspberrypi-ui/piclone#23

Might be able adapt those in somewhere.