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Published inNov 2013
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Andrew K. Dennis
Andrew K. Dennis
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Andrew K. Dennis

Andrew K. Dennis is a full stack and cybersecurity architect with over 17 years' experience who currently works for Modus Create in Reston, VA. He holds two undergraduate degrees in software engineering and creative computing and a master's degree in information security. Andy has worked in the US, Canada, and the UK in software engineering, e-learning, data science, and cybersecurity across his career, and has written four books on IoT, the Raspberry Pi, and supercomputing. His interests range from the application of pataphysics in computing to security threat modeling. Andy lives in New England and is an organizer of Security BSides CT.
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Booting from an external USB HDD


Booting the Raspberry Pi up to use a USB HDD will give you extra storage capacity and also provide you with a device that is faster and more robust when it comes to accessing data repeatedly. This is especially useful when running large MapReduce applications with Hadoop. The USB HDD should contain external power, if possible, as the max recommended current on the USB ports is 100 mA.

Follow the listed steps to set up your USB HDD and configure your SD card:

  1. Plug in the USB device to one of your Raspberry Pi's USB port's; remember to leave the keyboard attached.

  2. Using the Linux instructions from Chapter 2, Setting Up your Raspberry Pi Software and Hardware for Parallel Computing, grab the disk name and unmount the USB device. You can use the instruction at the following eLinux page to format your USB drive:

    Note

    You can use ls /dev/ | grep "sd" to list connected devices and then to mount the device use sudo mount /dev...

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Andrew K. Dennis

Andrew K. Dennis is a full stack and cybersecurity architect with over 17 years' experience who currently works for Modus Create in Reston, VA. He holds two undergraduate degrees in software engineering and creative computing and a master's degree in information security. Andy has worked in the US, Canada, and the UK in software engineering, e-learning, data science, and cybersecurity across his career, and has written four books on IoT, the Raspberry Pi, and supercomputing. His interests range from the application of pataphysics in computing to security threat modeling. Andy lives in New England and is an organizer of Security BSides CT.
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