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Bijay Kumar Pun
Bijay Kumar Pun

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Linux Test Session: Manually mounting an SDHC card [unedited]

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The system failed to detect ( and mount) the card when inserted. Ultimately, had to manually mount it.

1. Check if the device is read by the system:

  • Before inserting
    $ ls /dev/ | wc -l
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  • After inserting
    $ ls /dev/ | wc -l
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*538 to 542 tells some files or directories were added

  • Also $ dmesg | tail -n 7 Alt Text

Notice : mmcblk0, that's the device name

2. Check if the device is listed (Other ways to see if device is recognized in some way)

$lsblk
Lists block devices
$lsusb
Lists usb devices

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Notice the name : mmcblk0 and mmcblk0p1
Also the size : 3.7G

3. Mount

$mount -t type device dir
Mounts a device name *device
of fs type type to directory dr

Here:
*$ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/mmcblk0p1 Desktop/card/

  • Attempt 1
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  • Attempt 2
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*[-t] option indicates fstype ie. the filesystem type with which the device is formatted; which in here is vfat
The most common are ext2, ext3, ext4, xfs, btrfs, vfat, sysfs, proc, nfs and cifs *

DONE!

Also check:
https://dev.to/bijaykumarpun/linux-test-session-monitoring-disk-space-unedited-2g8f

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