command to find the SD card

jone kim · 06-13-2010, 09:12 PM

How to find info and contents of the SD card via linux terminal. I found a command "mount"in internet. According to it it's in dev/sdb/.. but I didn't found such. I saw dev/sdc/.

Can anyone help me?

Mr-Bisquit · 06-13-2010, 09:23 PM

After you insert the card type

Code:

dmesg|tail

in a terminal.

frankbell · 06-13-2010, 09:57 PM

dmesg will help you find out how Linux is seeing the card. More about dmesg here.

When you find it in the output of dmesg or dmesg | tail, the easiest way is to then enter it as root in your fstab and mount it using the mount command.

Here's what I experienced in mounting a USB drive. The drive was different, but the procedure is the same.

H_TeXMeX_H · 06-14-2010, 05:52 AM

You can also use:

Code:

blkid

It is the one with the VFAT filesystem, I doubt anything else uses this, unless you have more than one.

jone kim · 06-15-2010, 06:48 AM

Ok guys thanks for the reply. I will try with your commands.

saikee · 06-15-2010, 08:10 AM

For my money I always do a

Code:

su
fdisk -l

for Debian/Ubuntu distros replace "su" with "sudo su".

This will display all the disks and their partitions.

From the size of the disk I can find out if it is a USB device and its device names directly from the kernel.

A device, if has a vaild filing system, say it is sdc1 can be mounted manually by commands

Code:

mkdir /mnt/sdc1
mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc1
ls /mnt/sdc1

The last command list the contents of sdc1. By such time the folder /mnt/sdc1 of the device will be displayable in the GUI to do drag and drop.