[Gloucs] SD memory cards.

Brian Wilkinson bcla.wilkinson at googlemail.com
Thu Oct 11 15:59:23 BST 2007


I would have thought it was more likely that the media is not in fact on
sda1. Try 'dmesg' - it might confirm this one way or another.

On 11/10/2007, Chris Smith <maximinus at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Try
>
> mount -t autofs /dev/sda1 /place/directory/name/here
>
> as root
>
> Or instead of autofs, try vfat
>
> Chris
>
> On 10/11/07, Geoff Bagley <geoff.bagley at btinternet.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi.
> >
> > I have just bought a USB plug-in SD  memory reader to match my Canon
> > digital camera.
> >
> > All works well,  and I can down-load my photos into my Toshiba laptop.
> >
> > However, I would prefer to access the device by mounting it  ( say in
> > /mnt )  using the CLI,  rather than as a konqueror window.
> >
> > The problem is that  mount /dev/sda1  asks for a filesystem type.
> >
> > Can anyone make a good suggestion what to put after the "-t" request ?
> > Is there a way of looking at an existing file system, and identifying
> > its pedigree ?
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Geoff.
> >
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