Re: [tlug] Ubuntu won't format a 2GB SD card as fat 16

["Evan Monroig" <evan.monroig@example.com>]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Dave M G <dave@example.com> wrote:
>  Apr  1 18:09:57 homebase kernel: [153453.172899] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdf]
>  4030463 512-byte hardware sectors (2064 MB)
>  Apr  1 18:09:57 homebase kernel: [153453.173654] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdf]
>  Write Protect is off
>  Apr  1 18:09:57 homebase kernel: [153453.176519] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdf]
>  4030463 512-byte hardware sectors (2064 MB)
>  Apr  1 18:09:57 homebase kernel: [153453.177269] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdf]
>  Write Protect is off
>  Apr  1 18:09:57 homebase kernel: [153453.177285]  sdf: sdf1

I think that these lines tell you that the card has become /dev/sdf
and has one partition at /dev/sdf1

>  > Try tailing /var/log/messages as described above when inserting a
>  > card. See if you can tell which device it becomes. Then run "sudo
>  > fdisk -l /dev/sdd" (changing sdd to whatever the device node actually
>  > is).

So instead of this you should try "sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdf".

By the way, the bunch of files in /dev/ is how Linux presents you the
hardware and partitions, and the stuff in /mnt or /media is where you
link one partition on your disk to the directory tree.  That is, when
you want to make a filesystem, you should do that on a device in /dev,
and when you're done you can link that filesystem to a mount point
under /mnt or /media (which Ubuntu will probably automatically do for
you).

Hope this helps,

Evan