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Hello,
in the last release 2017-06-21 of Raspbian Lite there is an issue with the IMG file.
The problem is that file is not aligned on 512 bytes (the smallest sector size). I presume someone made a mistake when creating it. If you pad it out with zeros to be a multiple of 512 bytes then it would work again.
Best regards.

Could you elaborate? What are you seeing and what are you expecting to see (exact numbers)?

ls -l fdisk -l
Disk 2017-04-10-raspbian-jessie-lite.img: 1.2 GiB, 1297862656 bytes, 2534888 sectors
Disk 2017-06-21-raspbian-jessie-lite.img: 1.2 GiB, 1304671744 bytes, 2548187 sectors

the last img file has 279 bytes over.

The size of the image doesn't matter. It would just mean that a few extra bytes get written when the image is dd'ed, but that's about it.

In order to fix it i execute the following command:

That doesn't accomplish anything.

in the last release 2017-06-21 of Raspbian Lite there is an issue with the IMG file.

Just as another user who has not yet tried this recent image, can I ask what the actual 'issue' is here?

Can the image be successfully 'flashed' to a microSD card?

Does the resulting microSD card subsequently boot up normally in an RPi?

I cannot use the last image with "Image for Linux" http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-linux.htm
It check if the file is not aligned on 512 bytes (the smallest sector size) and give me an error.
In order to make it work i have to manually add the missing 233 bytes.

marionee wrote:I cannot use the last image with "Image for Linux" http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-linux.htm
It check if the file is not aligned on 512 bytes (the smallest sector size) and give me an error.
In order to make it work i have to manually add the missing 233 bytes.

Why not just use dd (or etcher) which don't have any daft requirements like that? (And are free - in particular dd is included as standard in all Linux's). You have used dd anyway.

To reiterate whats already been said, the file size has nothing to do with "alignment".

B.Goode wrote:

in the last release 2017-06-21 of Raspbian Lite there is an issue with the IMG file.

Just as another user who has not yet tried this recent image, can I ask what the actual 'issue' is here?

There is no issue.
Just a strange piece of software that expects the image to be an exact multiple of 512 bytes in size.

2017-06-21 Raspbian Lite works fine.

Thanks, all of you.