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Raspberry Pi Notes

Reformatting SD Card

Get the list of devices:

sudo diskutil list

Find which is the SD card, then run:

diskutil eraseDisk FAT32 PIXEL MBRFormat /dev/disk2 where /dev/disk2 is the device we found as the SD card

Then we unmount the drive:

sudo umount disk2

And all subparitions:

diskutil umount disk2s1

Finally make it bootable with:

sudo dd bs=4M if=./ubuntu-minimal-16.04-server-armhf-raspberry-pi.img.xz of=/dev/disk2

Expanding the filesystem

After you are booted into the Pi, if you have a command prompt you should be able to check and see if the full partition of the SD card was used for your file system by running:

df -h

Determine the storage devices:

ll /dev/mm*

Check the partition table of the device:

sudo fdisk /dev/mmcblk0 -l

Inspect the cylinder, head and sector addresses:

sudo parted /dev/mmcblk0 unit chs print

References:

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