[ale] mounting an SD card

[Jim]

JK wrote:
> Jim Philips wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm trying to mount an SD card I bought for a new camera. I find my card 
>> reader in dmesg, like so:
>>
>> usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
>>  Vendor: Generic   Model: USB SD Reader     Rev: 1.00
>>  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
>> sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
>>
>> But if I try to mount it, I get:
>>
>> bash-3.1# mount /dev/sda -t vfat /mnt/sd
>>
>>     
> Try
>
> bash-3.1# mount /dev/sda1 -t vfat /mnt/sd
>
> You need to tell it which partition to mount. Usually the first partition
> on an  SD card is the data one, but you can "fdisk /dev/sda" and issue
> the "p" command to see them all.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- JK
>
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fdisk -l /dev/sda
Will list the partions in batch mode.

Jim.