November 2018
Beginner
472 pages
13h 5m
English
Content preview from Learn Robotics Programming
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Shutting down your Raspberry Pi
When you are done with the Pi for a session, it's not very nice to the filesystem to just unplug it.
Pulling power from the Raspberry Pi when it is not expected can cause loss of files and SD card corruption. You may lose your work on it and you may also damage the SD card enough to need to replace it. Always use the correct shutdown procedure.
It's strongly advised to tell it to shut down. To do this, use the following command:
pi@myrobot:~ $ sudo shutdown -h now
Wait for the green light activity to stop; PuTTY will detect it has disconnected. You can now safely disconnect the power from the Raspberry Pi.