Raspbian image with 4GB boot area for 8GB SD Card. The 4GB area can be access by both Raspberry Pi and PC (Windows & MAC) as explained at https://qiita.com/UedaTakeyuki/items/1b9708cd40d5f83d4b7c. So, you can use this like: - Take Camera Image or Sensor Data by Raspberry Pi & read it by PC. - Take Raspberry Pi OS SD Card Backup on Raspberry Pi there selves, & get it by PC OS version is as follows: pi@raspberrypi:~ $ uname -a Linux raspberrypi 4.9.35-v7+ #1014 SMP Fri Jun 30 14:47:43 BST 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux Jul 3 2017 14:16:43 Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom version 4139c62f14cafdb7d918a3eaa0dbd68cf434e0d8 (tainted) (release)