[Malvern] SD memory cards.

[Richard Smedley]

On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 14:35 +0100,  Andy Dixon wrote:
> Geoff, the format would be FAT - so, IIRC, you would need to choose  
> vfat as the fs type..

[snip]
> > 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 ?

It will indeed be vfat, but you can also check this after it's
automatically mounted and presented in Konqueror, by looking
at the list of mounted partitions:
$cat /etc/mtab
(the file type is in the third column).

 - Richard