Raspberry Pi: How a reboot works

How the reboot of the all-round talent Raspberry Pi works is not so obvious without prior knowledge. We explain to you step by step how to reboot your mini computer.

Raspberry Pi – how to reboot the mini computer

The Raspberry Pi mini-computer can be easily rebooted with a command.

• To use the sudo reboot command, you need to go to the command line of your Raspberry Pi.

• Sudo reboot can only be used if you have superuser privileges. These should be available to you by default unless you have changed your user configuration. Sudo stands for “Super User Do”, i.e. Super User does or executes. You can find out how to create a new user in another article

• Alternatively, you can also use sudo shutdown -r now. This is the written version of sudo reboot. Where “shutdown” stands for shut down, “-r” for reboot and “now” for now. This refers to the time of the command to be executed.

• It is important that you never unplug your Raspberry Pi. As with conventional desktop computers, you can damage your hardware here. For example, your Raspberry Pi’s SD card may become corrupted in the process and require you to reboot it, losing all data and your previous work.