filesystems

posted 11 years ago by Ben Cordero

Raspberry Pi and Chromebook Pixel

I haven't had a commercially backed Linux device that I've been excited to use as much as my Pixel.

One of the things that brightened my day today was the realisation that Chromebooks support Linux filesystems for SDCards and other removable media.

This opens up a lot of Pi hackery possibilities.

crosh> shell  
chronos@localhost / $ cat /proc/filesystems;find /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/fs/  
nodev   sysfs  
nodev   rootfs  
nodev   bdev  
nodev   proc  
nodev   cgroup  
nodev   tmpfs  
nodev   devtmpfs  
nodev   debugfs  
nodev   securityfs  
nodev   sockfs  
nodev   usbfs  
nodev   pipefs  
nodev   anon_inodefs  
nodev   devpts  
        ext3  
        ext2  
        ext4  
nodev   ramfs  
nodev   ecryptfs  
nodev   pstore  
        fuseblk  
nodev   fuse  
nodev   fusectl  
/lib/modules/3.4.0/kernel/fs/  
/lib/modules/3.4.0/kernel/fs/fuse  
/lib/modules/3.4.0/kernel/fs/fuse/fuse.ko  
/lib/modules/3.4.0/kernel/fs/isofs  
/lib/modules/3.4.0/kernel/fs/isofs/isofs.ko  
/lib/modules/3.4.0/kernel/fs/hfsplus  
/lib/modules/3.4.0/kernel/fs/hfsplus/hfsplus.ko  
/lib/modules/3.4.0/kernel/fs/fat  
/lib/modules/3.4.0/kernel/fs/fat/fat.ko  
/lib/modules/3.4.0/kernel/fs/fat/vfat.ko  
/lib/modules/3.4.0/kernel/fs/nls  
/lib/modules/3.4.0/kernel/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-1.ko  
/lib/modules/3.4.0/kernel/fs/nls/nls_ascii.ko  
/lib/modules/3.4.0/kernel/fs/nls/nls_utf8.ko  
/lib/modules/3.4.0/kernel/fs/nls/nls_cp437.ko  
/lib/modules/3.4.0/kernel/fs/udf  
/lib/modules/3.4.0/kernel/fs/udf/udf.ko

There is a cool ability to read and modify SDCard images with dd, or the Chromebook's 'Files' app. There is support for fat, ext4 and hfs+. Sadly, reiser, ntfs and exFat aren't there to complete the list, but I don't think anyone uses those (or is it just me?).

Another cool thing that I found was that the pixel comes with the PL2303 usb- serial driver.

chronos@localhost / $ (lsmod;find /lib/modules)|grep pl2303  
pl2303                 16448  0   
/lib/modules/3.4.0/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.ko

Which means that I can serial into the Pi from the Pixel.

chronos@localhost / $ minicom -b 115200 -D /dev/ttyUSB0

Oh, and remember to disable hardware flow control.