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I've installed LibreELEC 9.2.1 on my Raspberry Pi 4's SD card. For technical reasons, I need to remove the card from the Pi and read a log file using my laptop.

I've tried mounting the SD card from my Ubuntu 16.4 machine but have not been able to do so. It's as if Ubuntu fails to recognize the specific file system being used.

What type of file system is the SD card formatted with? How can I access files on it from a Windows or Ubuntu Linux machine?

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  • Partition 2 is an ext4 filesystem - Windows, not much chance - Ubuntu, mount it
    – Jaromanda X
    Commented Mar 22, 2020 at 22:39
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    Does this answer your question? How can I mount a Raspberry Pi Linux distro image?
    – Mohi Rostami
    Commented Mar 22, 2020 at 23:15
  • Why not use 'scp' to copy the file across your local network?
    – CoderMike
    Commented Mar 22, 2020 at 23:16
  • @CoderMike the issue I'm debugging is wi-fi connectivity. I can't use SCP because I have no network connectivity.
    – urig
    Commented Mar 23, 2020 at 14:53
  • Please attach the SD Card with a card reader to the Ubuntu machine. What is the error message when try to mount the SD Card? Please execute lsblk and put its output to your question.
    – Ingo
    Commented Mar 24, 2020 at 10:04

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It is not easy to read or modify a libreELEC installation. To be stable and have no data lost on interrupted power it uses a sophisticated read only filesystem named squashfs. And to make it more complex it is in addition compressed. Because this is a special Linux filesystem I don't see any chance to manage it from MS Windows, so you have to use your Ubuntu box. Here you can look how to decompress and unpack the libreELEC filesystem, so you can read and modify it.

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