Raspberry Pi SD Cards and Images
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How to burn an SD image on Mac OS
- Run Disk Utility
- Insert the SD card where you will burn the image
- Check in Disk Utility the disk Number
- Eject the SD partition
- Open a terminal and type matching the Number, the path and name of the image
- sudo dd if=///dir_path/input_image.img of=/dev/rdiskNumber bs=1m
How to backup a Raspberry SD card
- Run Disk Utility
- Insert the SD card
- Check in Disk Utility the disk Number
- Eject the SD partition
- Open a terminal and type matching the Number path and name of the image
- sudo dd if=/dev/rdiskNumber of=///dir_path/output_image.img bs=1m
How to shrink a Raspberry Pi image
- In Ubuntu:
- sudo apt-get install dcfldd
- sudo ./raspbian-shrink -f -m 1024 /home/interactionstation/Desktop/player_sync_stretch_empty_spaces_fixed.img /home/interactionstation/Desktop/videosyncfinal.img
- More info:
- https://github.com/aoakley/cotswoldjam/tree/master/raspbian-shrink