Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Format SD card to Linux filesystem in eee pc

fdisk to show your drives:

Code:
sudo fdisk -l


login as root and umount your SD card:

Code:
sudo -s
umount /dev/sdb1


fdisk to create partition /dev/sdb of SD card:

Code:
fdisk /dev/sdb
New > Primary > Enter > Write > “yes” > Quit

Format new partition /dev/sdb1 to ext3 filesystem:

Code:
mke2fs -c /dev/sdb1 # format to ext2
tune2fs -j /dev/sdb1 # convert to ext3 (optional)
e2label /dev/sdb1 SDCARD # set volume label to “SDCARD”

change ownership to user for the SDCARD after remount:
Code:
sudo chown -R user:user /media/MMC-SD/SDCARD

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4 comments:

  1. ParksFebruary 14, 2008 at 4:58 AM

    Tried this today and managed to change the owner on my highspeed SD Card. Unfortunatly now it as slow as a snail in glue. Any ideas?

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  2. javacomFebruary 14, 2008 at 10:13 AM

    try to create the directory

    sudo mkdir /media

    and remount your sdcard

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  3. N!DSeptember 22, 2008 at 2:16 AM

    Thanks a lot for this.
    Worked a treat, I had to exit the Console after formatting and labeling the drive, then the Chown command worked.

    Now I can get XAMPP working on it.

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  4. NinaAugust 24, 2009 at 2:05 PM

    I did this on my Kingston 8GB and it seemed to break the card. It spent close to an hour trying to create the file system and then I got a memory IO error and it hasn't worked since.
    I'm curious what type of card you had success with?

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