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

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	Hi.

On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 06:02:33PM +0000, Erik Josefsson 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

It has one name. This one, to be exact.

>    usb-Generic_STORAGE_DEVICE_000000001532-0:0-part1

And this is the first partition of said device.


> 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'

Ugh. Why run zcat as root if you can avoid it:

zcat core-lime2-1.0b17.img.gz | sudo tee \
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Generic_STORAGE_DEVICE_000000001532-0\:0 > /dev/null

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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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