A utility for working with disk images, which are designed to be flashed onto a Raspberry Pi.

piimg is currently untested beyond my own needs, and so I suggest great caution when using it.

There are 3 useful subcommands; list, mount and umount. list can be run on an image file by running

piimg list <img-file>

It performs a functionality similar to fdisk -l and will list the partitions on the disk.

mount is much more cool. It will mount an image files root partition at a given mount point, then mount in the boot partition too. Furthermore, it also bind mounts /dev and /sys, whilst creating a /proc. (How cool is that!?!) It can be run by

piimg mount <img-file> <mount-point>

To unmount, run

piimg umount <mount-point>

piimg should not be run as root and will escalate its privileges as necessary.

The aim is to create a library and command-line utility for manipulating, mounting and generally working with Raspberry Pi images.

This project started as a question on Raspberry Pi.SE. I've also drawn inspiration from the git UI.