Library imaging workflow & support /library on a different partiton or storage device.

[jvonau]

Not sure why I bother but this might be helpful, hit me up on skype for an explanation.

[jvonau]

Create the multipass VM multipass launch --name local-2110 21.10
Open shell on VM multipass shell local-2110
In the VM sudo apt update sudo apt -y upgrade sudo reboot
Provide a shared directory into the VM multipass mount /media/usb0/output local-2110:/output
Save provided local_vars.yml.txt in the host 'output' directory as local_vars.yml
Warning might have to comment out library_base_url in local_vars.yml.
Open shell on VM multipass shell local-2110
In the VM:
sudo mkdir /etc/iiab
sudo cp /output/local_vars.yml /etc/iiab/
curl d.iiab.io/risky.txt | sudo bash -s 3051

This is a testing point for the web based retrieval and reuse at f651a57
base-manifest.txt
kalite-manifest.txt
local_vars.yml.txt
maps-manifest.txt

[jvonau]

ubuntu@local-2110:/opt/iiab/iiab$ ls -l /output/
total 4403400
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root      65878 Dec  5 06:24 base-manifest.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  104857600 Dec  5 11:35 base.img
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root      26703 Dec  6 13:32 kalite-manifest.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2097152000 Dec  6 13:32 kalite.img
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root      16059 Dec  6 15:00 local_vars.yml
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root      16059 Dec  6 14:30 local_vars.yml.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root      72778 Dec  5 12:37 maps-manifest.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  209715200 Dec  5 20:32 maps.img
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2097152000 Dec  5 08:30 test.img

[jvonau]

Brainwave, the '/library image file' could be partitioned and thus directly writable to any usb storage device, trickier to setup via fstab if I recall correctly.

[jvonau]

Notes for partitioned image workflow changes, image writable directly to external device.
sudo parted /opt/test.img -- mklabel msdos
sudo parted /opt/test.img -- mkpart primary 1MiB 100%
sudo losetup -P -f /opt/test.img
sudo losetup | grep /opt/test.img returned loop5
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/loop5p1
sudo losetup -D /opt/test.img
in fstab /opt/test.img /mnt ext4 loop,offset=1048576 0 0
sudo mount -a

[jvonau]

to just add entries for an external drive use for example:
has_ext_disk: True
library_loc: disk
library_name: IIAB-LIBRARY-EXT