Card reader question

Phil phil_lor at bigpond.com
Sat Jul 18 00:02:26 UTC 2015


On 17/07/15 04:25, Colin Law wrote:
> On 15 July 2015 at 02:21, Phil <phil_lor at bigpond.com> wrote:
>> Thank you for reading this.
>>
>> /dev/mmcblk0 is created whenever I plug an SD card into my laptop, as
>> expected. However, my new desktop doesn't have a card reader slot and so I
>> have to use a USB card reader. The SD card is readable with a file manager
>> but /dev/mmcblk0 is not created.
>>
>> How can I overcome this problem?
>
> Run
> df
> and you will see where it is, probably dev/sdb or sdc

Thanks Colin. I've since realised that I can no longer make an image of 
the SD card read from the USB card reader. Backup yes but not an image.

-- 
Regards,
Phil




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