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I followed this guide to install Raspbian on an SD card. Now, I want to access the SD card to modify a few files, before plugging the card into my RasPi. In the end, I ran something like,

sudo dd bs=4M if=2015-05-05-raspbian-wheezy.zip of=/dev/mmcblk0

I'm running Kubuntu 15.04 and I just can't access the SD card. I tried to mount the SD card by writing

sudo mount /dev/mmcblk0 /mnt/raspi-fs

which results into

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mmcblk0,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error

       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail or so.

Running dmesg | tail gives

[  599.510979] mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address 1234
[  599.511303] mmcblk0: mmc0:1234 SA16G 14.4 GiB 
[  599.513857]  mmcblk0: unknown partition table

What am I supposed to do to mount the FS and access the root directory of my Pi?

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  • OMG, I'm so sorry. Using unzip prior to dd might be a good idea.
    – PhilippVerpoort
    Sep 11, 2015 at 19:14
  • That, and you might want to mount a specific partition (e.g. /dev/mmcblk0p1) instead of the entire SD card device (/dev/mmcblk0)
    – Phil B.
    Sep 11, 2015 at 22:43

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As mentioned, you need to unzip the file to produce an img to write to the card.

It is unlikely that the SD card would be /dev/mmcblk0. Paste the output of df -h as suggested in the guide.

Running dd risks overwriting your system.

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  • It was correct. Everything went well after doing the nice unzip trick.
    – PhilippVerpoort
    Sep 12, 2015 at 9:53

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