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

From Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Fwd: What's the device name of my microSD card?
Date 2019-04-21 20:20 +0200
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---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: What's the device name of my microSD card?
To: Erik Josefsson <erik.hjalmar.josefsson@gmail.com>


On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 2:03 PM Erik Josefsson <
erik.hjalmar.josefsson@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have just assembled a [Teres machine] to learn how to set it up from the
> instructions on http://box.redpill.dk/ mentioned before on this list.
>
> I run into my ignorance already at instruction 2: "Locate device name of
> your microSD card".
>
> It turns out when I use completion with ls /dev/disk/by-id/ that my new
> USB microSD card reader says that my micro SD card has two names:
>
> usb-Generic_STORAGE_DEVICE_000000001532-0:0
> usb-Generic_STORAGE_DEVICE_000000001532-0:0-part1
>
> This ambiguity becomes problematic when I try instruction 4) "Decompress
> and copy image onto card" with "Fast method" b):
>
> sudo sh -c 'zcat core-lime2-1.0b17.img.gz > /dev/disk/by-id/my-sd-card'
>
> I guess that the placeholder "my-sd-card" is neither of the two names
> above.
>
> Basically: How do I find out the device name of my microSD card?
>
>
>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!)

Patrick

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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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