SD Card Mount Problem
 

hi all,

the first time i inserted my secure digital, an icon showed up on my mepis desktop. when i inserted it several days later - nothing showed up.

how do i go about...

1. finding it
2. mounting it

any help is greatly appreciated.

tia...

This is how I went about solving the same problem.

Insert the card
$dmesg grep | tail
It should show sda or sdb or whatever.

Setup an entry in /etc/fstab for ongoing use. e.g.
/dev/sda1 /mnt/card vfat noauto,user,rw 0 0

Create a mount point, in this example /mnt/card
$mkdir /mnt/card
$chmod 777 /mnt/card or whatever permissions you require.

mount the device.

for details
$man mount

update - i'm not sure what was wrong. i think it was probably a file system issue. once i made a fat partition, it auto picked up in mepis - no problems.

i can't repeat the problem, though. or, more accurately, i hope i never repeat theproblem again.

thanks for the help.

GN