Help With Sd Card - Linux Forums

12-27-2007	#1 (permalink)
leicester67 Just Joined! Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 11	Help With Sd Card 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.

12-28-2007	#2 (permalink)
devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,596	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? __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First

12-28-2007	#3 (permalink)
leicester67 Just Joined! Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 11	I have a buil in Sd Card reader in my eee pc. And how do I do the other bit... Thanks.

12-28-2007	#4 (permalink)
leicester67 Just Joined! Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 11	Ohh I have done it and it does recognise it.

12-28-2007	#5 (permalink)
devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,596	Well Done ! If OS is not auto mounting SD Card then create a mount_point (folder) and mount it using mount command. __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First

12-28-2007	#6 (permalink)
leicester67 Just Joined! Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 11	Sorry where do I create this folder?

12-28-2007	#7 (permalink)
devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,596	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. Code: 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. __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First

12-28-2007	#8 (permalink)
leicester67 Just Joined! Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 11	I don't understand the second bit in the code.

12-28-2007	#9 (permalink)
devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,596	Post the output of fdisk -l command here. __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First

12-29-2007

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leicester67

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Ok Here....

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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