Hi I have an SD card in my EeePC and it is auto mounted at boot. I am trying to format it but it wont let me unmount it using the format or disk utilty. I configured it using Storage Device Manager which is a front end for fstab. Options set are: defaults,uid=1000,umask=0 It is a FAT32 formatted SD card. I am having problems with DropBox and one of the suggestions is to format it to ext3 or ext4. I can unmount it in Storage Device Manager, but then I cant format it. Any ideas? Simon -- --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- Asus EeePC 701SD running Ubuntu 10.10. Apple PowerBook G3 'Pismo' running OSX 10.4. Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro running 2.1
Simon Royal wrote:
Hi
I have an SD card in my EeePC and it is auto mounted at boot. I am trying to format it but it wont let me unmount it using the format or disk utilty.
I configured it using Storage Device Manager which is a front end for fstab.
Options set are: defaults,uid=1000,umask=0
It is a FAT32 formatted SD card. I am having problems with DropBox and one of the suggestions is to format it to ext3 or ext4. I can unmount it in Storage Device Manager, but then I cant format it.
Any ideas?
Be careful - it has fils on it which if removed, might make it unmountable. -- Tony Anson www.girolle.co.uk/
On 02 Mar 14:22, Anthony Anson wrote:
Simon Royal wrote:
Hi
I have an SD card in my EeePC and it is auto mounted at boot. I am trying to format it but it wont let me unmount it using the format or disk utilty.
I configured it using Storage Device Manager which is a front end for fstab.
Options set are: defaults,uid=1000,umask=0
It is a FAT32 formatted SD card. I am having problems with DropBox and one of the suggestions is to format it to ext3 or ext4. I can unmount it in Storage Device Manager, but then I cant format it.
Any ideas?
Be careful - it has fils on it which if removed, might make it unmountable.
EWRONG. This has certainly not been the case for at least 6 years, and I don't believe it was ever the case. (otherwise, given that your average digital camera does the equiv of a mkfs.vfat on your SD card when you tell it to format, all SD cards would be immediately broken...) -- Brett Parker
Brett Parker wrote:
On 02 Mar 14:22, Anthony Anson wrote:
Simon Royal wrote:
Hi
I have an SD card in my EeePC and it is auto mounted at boot. I am trying to format it but it wont let me unmount it using the format or disk utilty.
I configured it using Storage Device Manager which is a front end for fstab.
Options set are: defaults,uid=1000,umask=0
It is a FAT32 formatted SD card. I am having problems with DropBox and one of the suggestions is to format it to ext3 or ext4. I can unmount it in Storage Device Manager, but then I cant format it.
Any ideas? Be careful - it has fils on it which if removed, might make it unmountable.
EWRONG. This has certainly not been the case for at least 6 years, and I don't believe it was ever the case.
(otherwise, given that your average digital camera does the equiv of a mkfs.vfat on your SD card when you tell it to format, all SD cards would be immediately broken...)
I formatted a Kingston DT Mini 1 GB USB flash, and neither Debian nor Xandros will have anything to do with it. (So there!) -- Tony Anson www.girolle.co.uk/
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 06:28:52PM +0000, Anthony Anson wrote:
I formatted a Kingston DT Mini 1 GB USB flash, and neither Debian nor Xandros will have anything to do with it.
For starters that doesn't sound like an SD card.... Also, I'd suggest that there is something else causing it not to mount or be seen. Adam -- New signature required, suggestions on a post card please.
Adam Bower wrote:
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 06:28:52PM +0000, Anthony Anson wrote:
I formatted a Kingston DT Mini 1 GB USB flash, and neither Debian nor Xandros will have anything to do with it.
For starters that doesn't sound like an SD card.... Also, I'd suggest that there is something else causing it not to mount or be seen.
I havn't examined the files in the separate boot partition, but they look suspiciously similar. I just think the OP should exercise a bit of care like wot I didn't innit. -- Tony Anson www.girolle.co.uk/
On 02 Mar 19:41, Anthony Anson wrote:
Adam Bower wrote:
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 06:28:52PM +0000, Anthony Anson wrote:
I formatted a Kingston DT Mini 1 GB USB flash, and neither Debian nor Xandros will have anything to do with it.
For starters that doesn't sound like an SD card.... Also, I'd suggest that there is something else causing it not to mount or be seen.
I havn't examined the files in the separate boot partition, but they look suspiciously similar.
I just think the OP should exercise a bit of care like wot I didn't innit.
USB stick != SD card. There were a bunch of USB sticks a few years ago that did check the filesystem on themselves, they were all crap and should never have been made. SD cards are a completely different game. -- Brett Parker
Brett Parker wrote:
On 02 Mar 19:41, Anthony Anson wrote:
Adam Bower wrote:
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 06:28:52PM +0000, Anthony Anson wrote:
I formatted a Kingston DT Mini 1 GB USB flash, and neither Debian nor Xandros will have anything to do with it. For starters that doesn't sound like an SD card.... Also, I'd suggest that there is something else causing it not to mount or be seen. I havn't examined the files in the separate boot partition, but they look suspiciously similar.
I just think the OP should exercise a bit of care like wot I didn't innit.
USB stick != SD card.
There were a bunch of USB sticks a few years ago that did check the filesystem on themselves, they were all crap and should never have been made. SD cards are a completely different game.
Good! I've got an 8 Gig Sandisk which I want to use - but was thinking that it might be overlarge for my purposes. The idea is to populate it with Squeeze (and either a cut-down Win 2000 or XP Pro running in Virtual Box), Crunchbang, and maybe another distro, and somewhere, either on the HDD of the Eee or on the SD card, Grub. Then again, 8 Gig USB sticks are fairly cheap now - less than half the price of a card of the same capacity. The card, of course has the advantage that it can live in its own little slot on the Eee. We shall sEee. -- Tony Anson www.girolle.co.uk/
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Brett Parker <iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk> wrote:
On 02 Mar 19:41, Anthony Anson wrote:
Adam Bower wrote:
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 06:28:52PM +0000, Anthony Anson wrote:
I formatted a Kingston DT Mini 1 GB USB flash, and neither Debian nor Xandros will have anything to do with it.
For starters that doesn't sound like an SD card.... Also, I'd suggest that there is something else causing it not to mount or be seen.
I havn't examined the files in the separate boot partition, but they look suspiciously similar.
I just think the OP should exercise a bit of care like wot I didn't innit.
USB stick != SD card.
There were a bunch of USB sticks a few years ago that did check the filesystem on themselves, they were all crap and should never have been made. SD cards are a completely different game. -- Brett Parker
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Hi I have sorted the problem. I manually removed the lines referring to the SD card out of fstab and then rebooted. I then formatted it no problems. It seems even though I removed the settings from Storage Device Manager which is a front end for fstab, it was not writing to it. Now to see if formatting it to ext4 resolves my DropBox problems. Simon
On 02 Mar 11:32, Simon Royal wrote:
Hi
I have an SD card in my EeePC and it is auto mounted at boot. I am trying to format it but it wont let me unmount it using the format or disk utilty.
I configured it using Storage Device Manager which is a front end for fstab.
Options set are: defaults,uid=1000,umask=0
Mounted it ain't going to let you format it. You need to know the *device* associated with the SD card. It should be something like /dev/mmcblock0 or /dev/sd<something>, there might even be partitions. You'll just want to unmount it then mkfs.ext2 /path/to/the/partition (maybe /dev/mmcblock0p1). To find out what device it is you can watch the backend of the kern.log when you insert the card. Hope that helps, -- Brett Parker
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