Help With Sd Card

[leicester67]

Hi,
i'm new to linux and don't know much...
I need help formatting my UTF-8 Sd card.
If you need any more info I will try and find out more.
Thanks.

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

How do you connect SD Card? Which type SD Card reader do you have? Execute fdisk -l command. Does it detect SD Card?

[leicester67]

I have a buil in Sd Card reader in my eee pc.
And how do I do the other bit...
Thanks.

[leicester67]

Ohh I have done it and it does recognise it.

[devils casper]

Well Done !
If OS is not auto mounting SD Card then create a mount_point (folder) and mount it using mount command.

[leicester67]

Sorry where do I create this folder?

[devils casper]

Wherever you like. We usually create mount_point in /media or /mnt folders.
You must have root privileges to create folder inside /media or /mnt folders.

mkdir /media/sd_card
mount -t <file_system> /dev/<sd_card> /media/sd_card

Check the output of fdisk -l command and replace <file_system> and <sd_card> with actual filesystem and device name of SD Card respectively.

[leicester67]

I don't understand the second bit in the code.

[devils casper]

Post the output of fdisk -l command here.

[leicester67]

Ok Here....

Disk /dev/sda: 4001 MB, 4001292288 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 486 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 300 2409718+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 301 484 1477980 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 485 485 8032+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda4 486 486 8032+ ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)

Disk /dev/sdb: 8053 MB, 8053063680 bytes
16 heads, 60 sectors/track, 16384 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 960 * 512 = 491520 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 9 16384 7860224 b W95 FAT32