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A storage medium used in mobile devices like digital cameras, tablets, smartphones, ...

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I have an old 16GB SD card that started giving I/O errors, known it's gone bad, I dumped all the content to an image file to see what I could restore, and the Disk manager alerted me that 16.1MB were ...
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I have connected and mounted in Linux a 32GB micro-sd card that was installed on an old "android 6" tablet of mine du and baobab show only ~17GB allocated: $ du -sm /media/emmegi/6605-1EF6/ ...
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General overview I try to install the Mobian OS on my Pinephone thought the dd’s method as described in the official Debian documentation. Basically, I have to make a dd from an image to a partition ...
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Hope anyone has a hint, if fscrypt which serves for me as a replacement for the error prone ecyryptfs for my backed up home folder (which is in a different PV group, luks encrypted,ecryptfs home ...
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I am trying to flash a custom image from my SD card (mmcblk0) onto the emmc (mmcblk1) of my BeagleBone. NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT mmcblk0 179:0 0 14.9G 0 disk ├─...
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Kind of similar to this question, but not quite the same. I want to know how I can reliably add a persistent label to a disk, especially a USB flash drive or [Micro]SD card, that is on the disk itself,...
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I created my OS on my Raspberry pi 2 zero W on an SDcard. Now I want to distribute it so I made an Image from the SDCard (using dd). But the two cards behave differently especially at startup. Did ...
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I am currently working with NXP's iMX8MP-EVK and I created a custom image using yocto. The image is 6.6GB in size and after flashing this image into eMMC and booting through it, I found the remaining ...
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With previous platform the boot device was mtdX, and there could be only one sd-card, always appearing in the system as mmcblk0. New system has internal eMMC, which is mmcblkX, as well as may have sd-...
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Relevant dmesg: [980875.386648] mmc0: new SD card at address cde5 lsblk doesn't see it. /dev content does not change on insertion. The reader is integrated but sits on the USB bus. Anything beyond ...
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Context I am running a Raspberry Pi Zero with a Micro SD as it is designed.  However, for this specific application, I cannot use a read-only system as I usually do with a Raspberry Pi. Objective Keep ...
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When inserting an SD card in my laptop's internal card reader, it's not being recognized by my system. I've tried 2 micro-SD cards with an adapter and 1 SD card, which all work perfectly fine on ...
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How are data organized when written in the Micro SD cards as there are no mechanical spinning platters like hard disks?
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in our sports club somebody stole money over and over again. So some members set up a hidden camera to record him. After the next day the money was gone and they checked the camera. The SD card worked ...
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I have a mystery ... a reproducibile one, but still a mystery. My ideapad 100s has a SD card reader which I use to store stuff while I work on it, as its built-in drive is super tiny. Its really just ...
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I am working on setting up a bootable SD card for a Rockchip SOQuartz CM4. I am able to build uboot for this target, write it to an SD card along with a rootfs image and kernel, load uboot, and get to ...
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I am trying to figure out if my full size or micro size SD card slots on my Toshiba Click Mini 9l has the internals of using USB for SD card slots or if they are wired as actual SD-slots and not ...
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I bought a new Samsung 256GB Pro Endurance Micro SD Card. I wanted to format it so I could load an operating system for a Raspberry Pi. My laptop running Ubuntu 23.04 died for lack of power in the ...
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Does it possible to mount and refresh broken SD card? i had SD card, which doesn't readable by the system. It was happened while testing process, i had write to card files 1GB value, and after about ...
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Ok,I have steam with steam os in it sooo in a way on another i install steam os in sd card (install steam os in the sf did not end well and got file system that i can not delete or work it) and got ...
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I've read that ZFS/BtrFS have a checksum check, but they don't use it for data recovery, only for recovering data from a full local copy or a mirror copy. On the other hand, RAR archives support data ...
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I'm doing a backup operation on a SD-card. This card has been used for almost 8 y with regular write operation. Chances are that it is damaged somehow. That's why I choose ddrescue to get the content. ...
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I managed to compile a linux distribution thanks to yocto. I have 4 different files which are : bootloader u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin-bananapi-2020.01-r0 kernel uImage--5.4.111-r0-bananapi-...
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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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It's for a book navigation device for street children, using recycled laptop LCD's where the SD card would be encapsulated in cement and very difficult to change. If the bits of an SD card are not re-...
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I was copying files from a storage drive to the SD card mounted in my Chromebook R11 (Linux Mint) when it locked up. I resorted to turning off and rebooting, my file reader no longer recognizes the SD ...
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I'm using a custom buildroot Linux kernel for Raspberry Pi, based on the Pi kernel 5.10.92 (64-bit). I've flashed this image onto micro SD cards from two different manufacturers and installed them in ...
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I got a new Kingston 1Tb microSD card and made the mistake of putting it into my Steam deck right off rather than formatting it on my laptop first. The Steam deck format got stuck on "testing&...
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The goal is to replicate an SD card. Despite successfully replicating the SD card a few years ago, a recent attempt hangs at 99%, despite attempts from 2 different PCs. user@JUPITER Desktop$ date; ...
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I have a SD card that is giving me some trouble. I followed some instructions from here https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=368230 and used the command sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M ...
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Since my new Acer Aspire Vero laptop doesn't have an SD card slot I dug up my old Dane-Elec 9 in 4 Reader/Writer. However this seems unable to access the photos on my SD cards. Even though it works ...
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I am new for this platform. I am using Lichee Pi(Debian LXDE). I want to play a video. So,firt of all i need a video and video player. But my board does not support ethernet or wifi. so, i downloaded ...
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I'm running Alpine Linux 3.17.0 on kernel 5.15.79-0-rpi, on a RaspberryPi Zero 2 W. I have a USB card reader, and an SD card. When I have the SD card inserted into the card reader, and then insert the ...
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Summary I formatted a 64Ggb micro SD Card with an ext2 filesystem. After mounting and copying files to it, many files were corrupted; almost 400 out of 10,500 files. I also tried ext3 and ext4. And I ...
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I am creating an image of an sd-card partition (dd) and eventually the checksum (md5sum) of the image and the partition are not the same. What am i doing wrong? My sd card is inserted into an external ...
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There is a single-board computer booting Debian 11 from an SD-card, and the idea is if it ever fails to boot (eg from losing power mid-write), it attempts to boot from a known-good setup (eg read-only ...
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I am facing the following issue with SD card when trying to install OpenBSD 7.2 on Nanopi R4S (Rockchip RK3399 ARM64 SoC). The same problem as previously described on OpenBSD 7.1 here. sdmmc0: can't ...
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sorry for the weird title, but I'm just wondering if there is a way for mount to ignore a device's filesystem format and instead, mount a device in a different format? basically, I'm asking if ...
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I am trying to use qemu with the machine microchip-icicle-kit, following the instructions from https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/riscv/microchip-icicle-kit.html (even though it seems a bit ...
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Recently, my Android device has been unable to detect my SD card so I connected it to my PC (running Kubuntu) to figure out what's wrong. These are the results: dmesg correctly detects the card reader ...
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I'm stumped here trying to view recordings from a car dashcam's sd card. The dashcam should've been recording continuously, and was configured to overwrite old footage with new footage. Supposedly, ...
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I operate an HP Envy x360 15m series laptop with an AMD processor, which has a builtin slot for Secure Digital. However, inserting cards is not noticed, not even logged in the kernel ring, when ...
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I have a Jasper Lake mini PC with an Intel Micro SD card reader, running Ubuntu 22.04. If I have an SD card in the reader when I boot the machine, the card is not found, no block device is created, ...
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I have a 32Gb SD card that I want to boot a linux ISO from. I can write the image using balena, dd etc. and it works fine. However this is a bit wasteful as the ISO is a fraction of this size. I'd ...
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This is kind like a U-Boot related question. I'm not quite sure which site should I post to, but as I boot Ubuntu, I post it here. Basicly, I bought a cheap Nanopi Neo Air with Allwinner H3 SOC. I'm ...
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I have a SanDisk Ultra Plus 64gb MicroSd XC Card that I used to run ubuntu server on a raspbery PI. Now I have to format this card but I can not succes. I've tried many things including: Formating ...
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I would like to install OpenBSD 7.1 on the NanoPi R4S (Rockchip RK3399 ARM64 SoC). Following the instructions in INSTALL.arm64, I managed to make the NanoPi R4S boot miniroot71.img. I wrote the ...
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I have files in the nand flash memory of my Gumstix Overo that i want to copy to a SD card, but i can't access them through the overo terminal, so i wanted to copy them through the linux terminal but ...
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I'm running a raspberry pi on an SD card and the logs are constantly hammered with failed login attempts from botnets. Beyond filling the logs with useless information, this is putting wear and tear ...
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I have debian 11 and a MicroSd card reader built into my laptop. Device: Realtek Semiconductor RTS5129 Card Reader Controller. The problem is that it falls off after I insert the card and take it out ...
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