for the long time I’ve been using OpenHAB running on Raspberry Pi 2 and plain Raspbian. Long time ago I installed Raspbian to SD card by instruction provided on their page and then used this nice script in order to move installation to external SSD drive: Adafruit-Pi-ExternalRoot-Helper. I didn’t have any problems for years with this setup.
Now I decided to upgrade my hardware to Raspberry 3 and also start using openHABian instead of plain Raspbian. Having searched over this forum I haven’t found any simple instruction of how to install Openhabian to external SSD drive.
My question is: can I use the same Adafruit’s script for openHABian?
So in total installation process will looks like:
Hello @igorua,
Interesting script! I’d be very interested in your experience with it and openHABian.
openHABian is a standard Raspbian system with some further packages and modifications to the system settings. I don’t see a strong reason why the script would not work for openHABian. There might of course be small issues. if so please let us know!
What does this functionality do exactly? I’d like to have my root on USB-SSD also, but on a RPi2, so I can’t boot from it. So does it just mount the SSD somewhere and uses it as root, but the SDCard still boots?
i´m reusing this “old” Thread for my question. I´ve moved “root” to an USB SSD(Samsung 128GB) drive.
After a few hours the “root” (/) is gone. When i restart the PI everything is fine for a few hours. So i dont think its not a HDD spin down.
Any ideas?