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Setting Raspberry Pi / Raspbian default locale and keyboard settings

Default locale and keyboard settings on the Raspberry Pi can be configured using raspi-config on Rasbian.

Select option 4 Internationalization, and select options to configure your locale, timezone and connected keyboard layout.

If you’ve installed Raspbian and kept the defaults you probably ended up with a UK keyboard layout, and if you have a US keyboard, you’re wondering why some of your keys are producing unexpected characters 🙂

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Mounting Linux ext partitions on OS X

I wanted to check some files on an SD Card formatted in ext that I had used on my Pi and wanted to check if I had left some files in the home dir before I reimaged it. OS X doesn’t support ext formatted drives by default, but you add support using OSXFuse.

  • Install Fuse for OS X
  • Install the ext plugin for Fuse
  • Find the partition you want to mount with: diskutil list
  • Make a mount point – not sure on Mac OS X where is the best place, but I added /mnt/sdcard
  • Mount with:


    [code]sudo fuse-ext2 /dev/disk1s2 /mnt/sdcard[/code]

  • (replace with the /dev/ to your device)

I’m not sure if it’s best practice on the Mac to mount with sudo, but this worked for me for what I needed to do. Fuse mounts on ext are r/o by default, but there is experimental r/w support that can be enabled, check the docs.

Done!

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