Questions tagged [sd-card]
Questions related to using Secure Digital (SD) card with Ubuntu machine, related issues, etc.
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Why can't VM-based Ubuntu access an SD card?
I installed Ubuntu on a VMWare Virtual Machine (x86) on PC-Windows. I inserted an SD card on my PC, which shows drives inside it. I accessed the drives on PC File Manager successfully.
But in Linux ...
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Can you use/interchange the same Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 sd-card in a Raspberry Pi 4 and a Raspberry Pi 5?
I have both a Raspberry Pi 4 and a Raspberry Pi 5, and I am wondering if it is safe and successful to use a Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 formatted SD-Card between the two (ie. use it in the rpi4 for a while, ...
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Dual boot Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu on SD card EFI (Chuwi VI10)
I have bought a Chuwi VI10, very cheap chinese computer dual booting Windows 8.1 and Android. It runs InsydeH2O BIOS. I got rid of the Android stuff and decided I wanted to install Ubuntu on the SD-...
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SDcard not showing full size in gparted
So I was trying to put an embedded linux image inside an SDcard (32gb) and used the famous 'dd' command... Apparently it failed because now I cant format the disk anymore, in my Disks utility i get ...
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MicroSD card is set to Read-only state. How can I write data on it?
I have a MicroSD card reader in my notebook. When I insert a MicroSD memory card into it, I can't write any data on it - it's read-only. The same thing happens when I try to do it under root. And I ...
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Can't format sd card
Yesterday I found an old micro SD card laying in my drawer and decided to check what's in it using an adapter. The card contained some non-important files and I deleted them.
I took it out and put it ...
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SD Card Reader Not working - Ubuntu 20.04
I have Ubuntu 20.04, freshly installed. It is not able to access any SD Cards if used with the SD Card Adapter. I tried multiple adapters, and tested the same with other computers as well. The SD Card ...
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SD card content not showing up in Ubuntu
I have burned OS image (.img) into a new SD card (Sandisk 16GB) use LibreELEC USB-SD creator tool on Ubuntu laptop. I assume I don't need to format SD card before writing. Then I tried browse SD card ...
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Error mounting SD card when returning from suspend
I have a 128 GB SD card that I use for permanent storage in my Lenovo Thinkpad X1. I've mounted it in /etc/fstab with this line:
UUID=37733366-e936-41df-983a-f084352b3a5b /home/kristian/sd128gb ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 fails to mount SD card while Windows 10 reads it perfectly
The SD card is NTFS formatted.
Ubuntu 18.04 fails to mount SD card while Windows 10 reads it perfectly and reports no errors.
Actually, Ubuntu will not even boot with the SD card inserted. ANy ...
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Using Grub on hard disk to boot live SD card
I have a laptop running Ubuntu MATE 15.10, and said laptop has an internal media-card reader. I would like to be able to use that media-card reader to boot a liveCD installed on an SD card. ...
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Bootable SD Card Doesn't Show Up in BIOS
I installed Lubuntu 22.04.3 LTS on my HDD drive and now want to install it on an SSD drive instead. My laptop is Samsung 300E4A (BIOS version 09QA).
I used Startup Disk Creator to write lubuntu-22.04....
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Micro SD Card Reader not working on Lenovo N22 Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
I have Lenovo N22 with integrated micro SD reader. It works under Windows but not Ubuntu.
I have tried
sudo apt-get install --reinstall udisks2
and a restart but nothng has changed. The Micro SD Card ...
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SD card wont automatically mount
When plugging in my SD card, I get a message saying "not authorized to perform operation." I can mount it using sudo, but I can't create files on it in nautilus unless I'm running it as root.
sudo ...
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All folders and files in SD card and USB drive appearing as locked!
I am facing a wired problem and that is whenever I insert any USB drive or SD card in my computer, all folder and files inside it appear as locked! And therefore I can't crate any new folder and ...
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How do I create a multi-bootable SD card?
I am looking to make a backup & rescue micro-SD card for Microsoft Surface Pro 2 which has a micro-SD slot built-in. I probably won't be able to choose just one solution to use as a rescue disk, ...
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SD card available memory loss after formatting with Ubuntu
I purchased a new SanDisk 32Gb micro SD card and formatted it using Raspberry Pi imager on a Windows 10 machine. All went fine however I realised I should have included OS customisation. When trying ...
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How to change user of SD card from Root
I just recently got a Chromebook and now have Linux installed on it, and I am trying to get steam games onto my sd card. I initially had the issue in that it would not install anything on a drive with ...
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SD Card, Destination is read-only
I can no longer write to my SD card using the GUI (Files 3.10.1). If I use the command line I can successfully write to the SD card, but using the GUI gives me "Destination is read-only".
Using the ...
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Why is my SD card not formatting?
I literally tried about a millionth time that to format my card. When I got to Menu > USB Stick Format, it says that the format is confirmed, but when the local file browser is opened all files ...
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How to verify the microSD size advertised by the manufacturer?
I bought an 8GB microSDHC card. Which terminal command should show me the size as at least = 8,000,000,000 bytes ? The size should include the partition table and every byte of the card. fdisk -l is ...
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Deja Dup backup no longer working
I have been backing up my ~/home directory onto a 128GB SD card using Deja Dup for years now. I have directories on the card for each release of Ubuntu and when the card is full I delete a directory. ...
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SanDisk MobileMate USB 3.0 Reader (0781:cfcb SDDR-B531) not detected in Ubuntu 20.04.1 (amd)
I am able to use Transcend and Anker microSD card readers without any problems, however the SanDisk MobileMate USB 3.0 Reader is not being detected by lsblk.
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04.1 on ODROID-H2+ (...
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SD card sometimes mounted as readonly on Ubuntu 22.04, mount used in a docker container
On a Ubuntu 22.04 system a card reader is connected to a USB port. Since it's necessary to access the card reader in a Docker container, the volume is configured as follows in a docker-compose.yml ...
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All SD cards mounting as read only in Ubuntu 20.04
I'm trying to get my internal SD card reader to work on a Lenovo Thinkpad T15p. It's this model, therefor uses the Realtek RTS525A PCI Express Card Reader. It seems like this particular card reader ...
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How could i have certain directories in a removable device?
Lets say i want this directory structure on a SD card:
SD
├── log -> var/log
├── dbs -> var/db
└── desktop -> home/desktop
(its just an example)
This is so everytime a file goes into /var/...
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Created Partition in SD card is not detecting after rebooting
In Ubuntu 18, I inserted an SD card, and create a new partition using fdisk, then when executed the command lsblk, I got this
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0 7:0 0 ...
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eMMC device ( connected to mmctosd adapter ) detected as sdb not as mmcblk0 in ubuntu
I have connected emmc device to linux pc with mmctosd adapter and it is getting detected as sdb device. But now I want to use mmc-utils package ( mmc commands ). I think this cannot be used on sdb ...
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SD Adapter for Micro-SD not showing in the Disks and Devices popup or the media folder in Root
I have a Sandisk SD Adapter that supports MicroSD, MicroSDHC, MicroSDXC, and I have a Team brand 8GB MicroSDHC in it. When I plug it in it is not showing in my disks and devices list, but I hear the ...
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Set limit to data transfer/copy speed
On command-line and/or file managers (such as nautilus), how do we set an upper limit to data transfer/copy speed?
I haven't found anything on the manuals of cp or mv. I want to know this since I'm ...
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Why are new writes to files not surviving a power loss
I have a similar type of issue to: Raspberry Pi: Filesystem writes files, but after reboot the old data is back but not quite the same.
I am using Armbian_23.02.2_Orangepizero_jammy_current_5.15.93 ...
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Mounting a Micro SD card
I'm trying to mount a Micro SD card. I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.2. When I put a new micro SD card in, it automatically mounts and shows all files.
When I run: sudo mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/micro &&...
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Create partition on SD card in ubuntu terminal
I inserted a new SD card on ubuntu. When i gave lsblk command to get to know the path for mounting, I got this
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
mmcblk1 179:0 0 59.5G 0 disk
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SD card ddrescue retrieved everything but badblocks lists bad blocks like crazy; how come?
It astonishes me that I was able to perfectly recover an SD card with ddrescue which was used in an RPi for quite a while. But when I'm scanning the SD card with badblocks -nvs bad blocks are listed ...
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mobile phone created sd card mounted but not readable. ubuntu studio 22.04.02
I formatted a 16gb sd micro card on an MLS mobile phone (that has now gone dead).
I am on ubuntu studio 22.04.02 - dell inspiron laptop.
the card is mounted but not readable.
sudo parted -l yields:
(...
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RTS522A SD card reader on Lenovo P14s not working in Ubuntu 22.10
I have installed Ubuntu 22.10 (uname -a says 5.19.0-23-generic #24-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Oct 14 15:39:57 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux) on Lenovo P14s laptop.
There is built-in SD ...
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How to switch back to Windows 10 from Ubuntu [closed]
My specific issue is that although I have the Windows 10 ISO and the flash drive that I used to install Linux, I am unable to put the ISO files onto the Drive. Specifically, I'm using an SD card ...
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Accessing Android SD Card
New here so please bear with me!
I have an SD Card with some photos on it. It is formatted for an old Vodafone Android phone but the phone does not work any more so I need to access the card directly....
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Error when getting information for file "folder/": input/output error
I've searched for some similar questions for my problem but couldn't find solution. I've flash drive that I copied some files from window OS for a long time ago,and I cannot open them on ubuntu, ...
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Is it possible to recover this LUKS-encrypted SD card?
I have a large size SD card that was encrypted with LUKS using the GNOME Disk Utility running on Ubuntu. I had some cherished photos on it. I've managed to accidentally format the SD card and wish to ...
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Process '/usr/share/usbmount/usbmount add' failed with exit code 32 (automounting sd cards)
After updating to Ubuntu 22.04.2, usbmount no longer works. /var/logs/syslog contains the following:
May 21 13:57:44 homeserver usbmount[8979]: loaded usbmount configurations
May 21 13:57:44 ...
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SD Card will mount on one machine and not on another
I have two laptops with SD Card slots. One (machine 1, Ubuntu 18.04) has the SD Card mount as /dev/mmcblk0. The other (machine 2, Ubuntu 20.04) mounts SD Cards as block devices /dev/sdx where x is ...
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Ubuntu Installation from SD card always fails
I have tried installing versions 14.04, 17.10 and 18.04 on my desktop which has a Windows 8.1 installation already, as a dual boot system. If I burn the installation image to an SD/microSD card and ...
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fail create ext4 filesystem on micro sd card
I have a micro SD card that is plugged into an SD adapter.
Using gparted, I create an ext4 partition and formatted to ext3. When the process is complete, I get a warning icon assoc with that partition ...
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Struggling to create partitions on a SD flash card
I wanted to create partitions on a SD card. I tried to use GParted, KDE Partition Manager and also tried it under Windows using the system's manager but it always fails at creating more than one ...
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Problem accessing generic onboard SD card reader
I am using Jammy Jellyfish (fully updated) on a Toshiba Satellite L870-18V laptop using an Intel Core i3 dual core 4 thread processor and 8 GB of RAM.
I have long had problems accessing an SD card ...
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Why my SD Card not marked as removable?
My SD card in the card reader detected as mmcblk0
/sys/block/mmcblk0 -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.3/0000:01:00.0/rtsx_pci_sdmmc.0/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0:0001/block/mmcblk0
but it's not marked ...
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Cannot mount Micro-SD card onto Kubuntu 22.04 LTS
First, the preamble.
Operating System: Kubuntu 22.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.98.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
Kernel Version: 5.15.0-67-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
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Is there an SD Card diagnostic utility?
Are there any SD Card diagnostic utility programs out there for Ubuntu? I would like to run tests on my SD card to check capacity, write speed etc. I have one for windows but I am looking for a Linux ...
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Check real size of USB thumb drive
I recently read a lot about fake MicroSD card and USB thumb drives that claim to have a lot of space (even if you ask your computer), while physically offering way less. I recently bought a SanDisk ...