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Re: What's the device name of my microSD card?

From Erik Josefsson <erik.hjalmar.josefsson@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: What's the device name of my microSD card?
Date 2019-04-21 23:10 +0200
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On 4/21/19 8:05 PM, David Wright wrote:
> On Sun 21 Apr 2019 at 18:30:28 (+0000), Erik Josefsson wrote:
>> On 4/21/19 6:14 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
>>>  From the command line, 'df' returns free disk space and lists all
>>> mounted devices by device name. (One of probably many ways to do
>>> it!)
>> On 4/21/19 6:17 PM, Paul Sutton wrote:
>>> if you run lsblk it will list devices connected to the system
>> Here's the output of both commands, not sure I can figure out which
>> one(s) is(are) my usb-Generic_STORAGE_DEVICE (i.e. a microSD put into
>> a USB-thingie):
>>
>> debian@hamlet:~$ df
>> Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
>> udev              961108        0    961108   0% /dev
>> tmpfs             201708     3260    198448   2% /run
>> /dev/mmcblk0p2  61214500 11372112  47335168  20% /
>> tmpfs            1008520    50808    957712   6% /dev/shm
>> tmpfs               5120        0      5120   0% /run/lock
>> tmpfs            1008520        0   1008520   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
>> tmpfs            1008520        8   1008512   1% /tmp
>> tmpfs            1008520        0   1008520   0% /var/tmp
>> /dev/mmcblk0p1    202277    48430    143403  26% /boot
>> tmpfs             201704       24    201680   1% /run/user/1000
>>
>> debian@hamlet:~$ lsblk
>> NAME         MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
>> sda            8:0    1 29.7G  0 disk
>> └─sda1         8:1    1 29.7G  0 part
>> mmcblk0      179:0    0 59.5G  0 disk
>> ├─mmcblk0p1  179:1    0  204M  0 part /boot
>> └─mmcblk0p2  179:2    0 59.3G  0 part /
>> mmcblk2      179:256  0 13.8G  0 disk
>> ├─mmcblk2p1  179:257  0   50M  0 part
>> └─mmcblk2p2  179:258  0 13.7G  0 part
>> mmcblk2boot0 179:512  0   16M  1 disk
>> mmcblk2boot1 179:768  0   16M  1 disk
>>
>>
>> When I'm at it, here's the full ls completion from ls -al /dev/disk/by-id
>>
>> debian@hamlet:~$ ls -al /dev/disk/by-id/
>> mmc-R1J56L_0x7da477d7
>> mmc-R1J56L_0x7da477d7-part1
>> mmc-R1J56L_0x7da477d7-part2
>> mmc-SN64G_0x3376cd3a
>> mmc-SN64G_0x3376cd3a-part1
>> mmc-SN64G_0x3376cd3a-part2
>> usb-Generic_STORAGE_DEVICE_000000001532-0:0
>> usb-Generic_STORAGE_DEVICE_000000001532-0:0-part1
> I don't understand this output from   ls -al   as the -l switch should
> show a lot more information, viz:

Indeed, I only pasted completion, not the output. Apologies.

Here's the output:

debdebian@hamlet:/dev/disk/by-id$ ls -al
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 200 Apr 21 17:22 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 140 Apr 21 17:22 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  13 Apr 21 17:22 mmc-R1J56L_0x7da477d7 -> 
../../mmcblk2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  15 Apr 21 17:22 mmc-R1J56L_0x7da477d7-part1 -> 
../../mmcblk2p1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  15 Apr 21 17:22 mmc-R1J56L_0x7da477d7-part2 -> 
../../mmcblk2p2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  13 Apr 21 17:22 mmc-SN64G_0x3376cd3a -> 
../../mmcblk0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  15 Apr 21 17:22 mmc-SN64G_0x3376cd3a-part1 -> 
../../mmcblk0p1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  15 Apr 21 17:22 mmc-SN64G_0x3376cd3a-part2 -> 
../../mmcblk0p2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   9 Apr 21 17:22 
usb-Generic_STORAGE_DEVICE_000000001532-0:0 -> ../../sda
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  10 Apr 21 17:22 
usb-Generic_STORAGE_DEVICE_000000001532-0:0-part1 -> ../../sda1

>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 21 14:52 mmc-SD01G_0x00c2ed5b -> ../../mmcblk0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Apr 21 14:52 mmc-SD01G_0x00c2ed5b-part1 -> ../../mmcblk0p1
>
> which is showing my SD card out of a digital camera.

Yes, looks the same.


>
> The first line is the card itself, the second is a single partition
> containing a FAT16 filesystem.

Thanks for your explanation, it's getting clearer that "disk" (from 
lsblk) is the same as "device name" (as asked for in the instructions) 
and what you call "the card itself".

>
> The names you're quoting should be symbolic links created by udev, and
> they should point to the /dev names assigned by the kernel.
>
>> It's the usb-Generic storage I want to copy the gz image to.
> Your instructions would appear to write to the whole device, which is
> quite normal. The image itself will contain any partitioning required.
> In my case, that would be to /dev/mmcblk0. It looks like you have more
> choice, so take care.


I now think I should copy to /dev/disk/by-id/sda, but I will sleep on it!


>
> Cheers,
> David.

Thank you David.

And thanks to everybody.

//Erik

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What's the device name of my microSD card? Erik Josefsson <erik.hjalmar.josefsson@gmail.com> - 2019-04-21 20:10 +0200
  Fwd: What's the device name of my microSD card? Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com> - 2019-04-21 20:20 +0200
  Re: What's the device name of my microSD card? Paul Sutton <zleap@disroot.org> - 2019-04-21 20:20 +0200
    Re: What's the device name of my microSD card? Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com> - 2019-04-21 20:40 +0200
      Re: What's the device name of my microSD card? Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com> - 2019-04-21 21:00 +0200
    Re: What's the device name of my microSD card? Erik Josefsson <erik.hjalmar.josefsson@gmail.com> - 2019-04-21 20:40 +0200
      Re: What's the device name of my microSD card? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-21 22:10 +0200
        Re: What's the device name of my microSD card? Erik Josefsson <erik.hjalmar.josefsson@gmail.com> - 2019-04-21 23:10 +0200
          Re: What's the device name of my microSD card? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-22 03:10 +0200
          Re: What's the device name of my microSD card? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-04-22 09:40 +0200
    Re: What's the device name of my microSD card? Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-04-21 21:30 +0200
  Re: What's the device name of my microSD card? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-04-21 20:30 +0200
    Re: What's the device name of my microSD card? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-04-21 21:20 +0200
    Re: What's the device name of my microSD card? Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-04-21 21:20 +0200

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