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[image] Sharkys: because those 3 basically mounts first by default and then the ROOTA/B and USER… AUTOBOOT/BOOTA/BOOTB are all FAT32 partition, which most OS’es support out of the box. The others are all ext4, which only Linux supports out of the box.

You are right. It’s BOOTA/B. I might have some problems with my ext4fuse.

[image] rihanna: I might have some problems with my ext4fuse. ext4fuse will not automatically mount the ext4 partitions, you have to do that manually. But using ext4fuse will not be able to perform the jailbreak at all, since it’s a read-only implementation ( @spkesDE ).

I tried the Paragon trial and it worked. I got confused as I didn’t expect so many partitions and with so similar names. But I have it working now. Thanks.

Do we know why there are two root partitions? Is one used to restore e.g.? If so, is it safer to modify only the active one, leaving one pristine? Edit: Yeah, looks like it. /dev/sda6 has a version file at the root with 10.0.1, while /dev/sda8 has one with 10.0.2

[image] The new Homey Pro — Ask Me Anything Announcements So the homey has multiple Partitions 2x Boot ~300mb 2x System ~2,3GB 1x User ~2,7GB In total ~8 GB Why this system? Currently, a Homey update is an image of the boot and system drives. Because you c…

For macOS, I ran an Ubuntu 22.04 VM in UTM, sharing the Homey USB connection to the VM so I could mount the partitions there. Ubuntu 20.04 Virtual machines for Mac USB Documentation for UTM virtual machines

You can also use extFS for Mac . Tip: don’t set your Mac’s date to somewhere far in the future before you install it, because then it may extend the trial period to that date instead of just 10 days :wink:

Can anyone help me, i have done every step. But when i’m trying to login, it says connection refused. Homey is on the latest software, 10.0.3 and connected with lan on a fixed local ip adress Experimental SSH is disabled And maked the files executabel Thanks!

Could be many things. wrong SSH port. SSH failed to install. Files have the wrong chmod (especially if you use windows) SSH is still installing Added the files only to one root directory. It is difficult to tell from afar.

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