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Cloning and trimming a RaspberryPi microSD card

Posted 05-05-2024 at 09:30 PM by rouvas

A mini how-to on cloning (i.e. making an exact copy) and trimming (i.e. not copying any empty space at the end of the useful stuf) a RaspberryPi microSD card. The procedure should be applicable to other images as well, but I'm only reporting what I've tried.

Now if the source SD card can be accessed all of it is a lot more easier if the steps outlined at https://forums.raspberrypi.com//view...88670#p1745960 are followed.

However if you're like me who made...

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LibreWolf the Secure Firefox Fork

Posted 03-28-2021 at 10:14 PM by craigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)
Updated 01-16-2022 at 07:06 PM by craigevil (88.0.1)

Tags arm64, debian, firefox, librewolf, raspberrypi

LibreWolf: Browse With Freedom. This project is an independent fork of Firefox, with the primary goals of privacy security and user freedom. It is the community run successor to LibreFox.

Main site https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/

Documentation https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/docs

Releases: https://gitlab.com/librewolf-communi...nux/-/releases
For those of you on amd64 you can grab the .deb from here:
https://software.opensuse.org//downl...kage=librewolf...

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sed awk tr etc

Posted 01-15-2013 at 06:33 AM by NullTerminator
Updated 01-18-2013 at 06:54 AM by NullTerminator (add sed cmd for non prinitng char)

Tags awk, blob, raspberrypi, sed, translate

A couple sample to strip unreadable characters from a binary file

Code:

# Translate junk characters into newlines while squeezing
C:\Temp>tr -sc '[\011\012\015\040-\176]' \n < blob_of_data.txt

# Translate and discard single character lines
C:\Temp>tr -sc '[\011\012\015\040-\176]' \n < blob_of_data.txt | awk "length($0) > 1"

# replace a bad character in a file
0xa0 is a 'non breaking space' that appears often when...

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