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How to mount a Raspbian SD card on a Mac?
Found this article -> Mount a Raspberry Pi SD card on a Mac (read-only) with osxfuse and ext4fuse, It worked like a charm.
Here is the commands I ran om my mac:
brew cask install osxfuse
brew ...
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What's the difference between UUID and PARTUUID?
On Difference between UUID and PARTUUID
You can get a few hints about the difference between UUID and PARTUUID by specifying the -p option.
blkid -p /dev/sda1
or whatever device/partition you are ...
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how to copy sd-card whithout copying the unallocated space
Question:
I have a 32Gb SD card and I want to make a light copy of my os to make it work on a 16Gb SDcard.
Answer - use image-backup
Perhaps the easiest way to do this is with the image-backup ...
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Correctly partition 4TB drive with enclosure using Pi
There are a few things that you need to do to get this to work. First, after physically connecting the drive, run dmesg to see the name of the node in /dev. You should find something like this:
[ ...
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Netbooting multiple "workers" RPi from a "master" RPi
Here is a solution with netbooting using sytemd-networkd.
Network booting works only for the wired adapter. Booting over wireless LAN is not supported 1.
It is also important that there is already ...
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Expanding partition on SD
You can do it all on the Pi if you have SSH or terminal access, below are some notes I made when I first did it, you shouldn't lose any data if you do it correctly but as always it pays to have a ...
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How to make an image file from scratch
It is possible to create an empty image for a Raspberry Pi. Then you can copy an operating system with a boot and root partition to it and boot. To fill the empty image you can use any usable file ...
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How to mount a Raspbian SD card on a Mac?
Read and write Linux SD card on MacBook M1 with USB-C.
Install UTM: brew install utm
Run ArchLinux ARM in UTM.
Plug SD card into USB-A adapter.
Plug USB-A adapter into USB-C adapter.
Plug USB-C ...
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btrfs root filesystem on raspbian
Raspbian kernel doesn't include support btrfs by default; the initial boot stages run normally, but when the kernel loads, it won't see any filesystem which it could mount - and panics. A solution ...
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Image of a 16Gb card containing unpartitioned space at the end: Truncating possible?
I know this is an old question, but I would like to show how to do this process on Mac, because it is not as easy: fdisk doesn't have the -l option, and truncate is not installed by default:
1. Step ...
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Copy current SD image to larger SD card
The following worked for me, with an SD card that was originally prepared with NOOBS. I was going from a 32GB SD-Card to a 128 GB Card.
Insert the new card into an external card reader and attach it ...
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how to copy sd-card whithout copying the unallocated space
I assume you have a 32 GB SD Card with a productive installation that should be handled save and a spare 16 GB SD Card. You want to transfer the productive installation to the 16 GB SD Card. I would ...
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Can't boot after adding a third partition to sd card
After digging around some more.. I looked at the init_resize script and noticed that the disk id was being replaced in /etc/fstab.
Apparently, when a new partition is created, the disk id is changed, ...
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Why won't my raspberryPi boot if I use parted to adjust the partition?
To summarize the comment section: we don't know why parted changes the disk identity, but can only guess (or rather speculate). Anyway, this change made by parted has the undesired side effect that ...
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How to use external flash drive as raspberry pi 3 root storage?
You can put your filesystem on an external drive, there are instructions to use an external drive to boot your Pi. See https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bootmodes/msd.md
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What's the difference between UUID and PARTUUID?
As I understand it.
The term UUID in general refers to a "Universally unique identifier", known in the windows world as a GUID. There are a few different schemes but for the most part modern UUIDs/...
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using linux command line to format and partition an sd card for raspberry pi
do I still need a fat32 partition
Yes, that is required for booting. The Raspbian card layout is much simpler than the NOOBs one though; there are two partitions, one little vfat one for the boot ...
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Headless wpa_supplicant etc/wpa_suuplicant vs /boot
At boot Raspbian will copy wpa_supplicant.conf from the FAT partition containing the bootloader etc. overwriting any existing file in /etc/wpa_supplicant/ otherwise /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant....
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Dual boot for the rpi
a simple way is to use Grub for ARM.
UPDATE: It works with a help of U-boot, so the uBoot actually boots up a Grub kernel, take a look here - it's a full step-by-step guide I used when I was working ...
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Can't boot after adding a third partition to sd card
Thanks to Richard for giving this to the community. I stumbled also over this problem and was looking for a solution for hours. For those who are not so familiar here a step by step description to ...
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How to shrink the size of your sd card before using dd to backup your sd card
Working with Raspberry Pi SD cards is painful on Windows.
I suggest using a gparted Live CD (based on Linux) to modify RPi partitions. You can boot from such a disk without touching your Windows ...
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Editing Pi 3 System files on SD outside Linux?
Try booting a live CD on your laptop. That gives you a Linux system that can edit anything on any Raspberry Pi SDCard.
You can get a live CD from: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspberry-pi-...
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How do I expand the file system on a Raspberry Pi 4 manually?
From the additional information you posted it appears you are using NOOBS (as the error message suggested).
I don't know why the Foundation continues to recommend NOOBS - the experienced users on ...
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How do I expand the file system on a Raspberry Pi 4 manually?
It is doable without a third-party computer, but is tricky. Back-up first.
You can resize the partitions with fdisk alone, by deleting them and recreating them at exactly the right locations. Write ...
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automate filesystem expansion - booting from a USB Drive (8GB Image burned to 32GB USB)
On the very first boot of a virgin Raspbian image there is running a script that you can find in /boot/cmdline.txt before booting first time. This is from Rasbian Buster Lite 2020-02-13:
console=...
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Recover an ext4 due to the super block flag
In general, this is an indication of a dying sd card.
What happens is, that fsck tries to recover the journal, tries to write the superblock, but then finds that the superblock is not updated.
If you ...
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Shrinking partition for backup
Another alternative is to use pishrink
PiShrink is a bash script that automatically shrinks a pi image that will then resize to the max size of the SD card on boot. This will make putting the image ...
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Bad magic number in super-block when trying to resize RPi image
Well, about 8 years later, I stumbled across a similar problem, so I'm posting the solution for anyone out there.
You are running resize2fs on the loop block device, you're supposed to run it on the ...
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Can I automate raspi-config partition resize?
I was able to automate partition expansion to 100% of remaining space with this command:
sudo raspi-config nonint do_expand_rootfs
You're not done until after a reboot.
sudo reboot
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Move 16GB SD NOOBS Raspbian to 64GB Micro SD for a new B+
I just successfully moved from a 6GB NOOBS install to 64GB card.
My install didn't have a Swap partition. This meant the other answers here didn't provide me with the information I needed.
The steps ...
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