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