Need to remount my SD Card - I think - need advice

[finny388]

I have a 16GB SD card that I am using as storage in my eee 900 netbook running Kubuntu 9.10.

It was formatted and labeled in Windows as FAT32 labelled 'SD_16GB'.
As a result of removing it without warning Kubuntu and reinserting it (I assume) some time in the past its mounting has become messed up.

In Dolphin:
It used to appear in Places and under /media/SD_16GB. All was well.

It still does: but if I click on /media/SD_16GB in the file tree it appers to have no content.
If I click on SD_16GB in Places, a new entry under media appears called SD_16GB-1 and it has the contents of my card.

All my links to this drive through apps or desktop links are broken. Ktorrent complains that the directory no longer exists.

How do I repair this?

Here is what 'df -h' displays:

Filesystem      Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1       3.7G 2.9G 631M 83% /
udev         498M 312K 497M  1% /dev
none         498M  12K 498M  1% /dev/shm
none         498M  88K 497M  1% /var/run
none         498M   0 498M  0% /var/lock
none         498M   0 498M  0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sdb1       14G  12G 1.7G 88% /home
/dev/sdd1       15G  12G 3.0G 81% /media/SD_EEE_16GB-1

thanks

[oshunluvr]

Re: Need to remount my SD Card - I think - need advice

Anyway you could backup all the files? I see you don't have room on that computer.

Reformatting would likely make it work again.

Question: Why fat32? Are you using it in a windows computer also? IMO fat32 is the least reliable of your formatting options unless you need windows access.

[finny388]

Re: Need to remount my SD Card - I think - need advice

Thank you for the reply oshunluvr but I can't see how reformatting would help.

Unless I relabelled it in the process but that would defeat the purpose of preserving the links to this card.

to answer your question, I use FAT32 so that I can go between linux and windows. I also can't see the file format as the culprit.

[Snowhog]

Re: Need to remount my SD Card - I think - need advice

The mountpoints in /media for removable devices are dynamically created when the device is plugged in. In your case, what is listed in /media without the USB device plugged in? I'm guessing you'll see SD_16GB even though it shouldn't be there. If it is, remove it:

sudo rmdir /media/SD_16GB

Then plug in the device and check it in Dolphin.

[finny388]

Re: Need to remount my SD Card - I think - need advice

great guess
yes, it was there regardless of the card's presence.

It worked perfectly. Removed the card, rmdir'ed, re-inserted card and all is now as it was before.

Thanks Snowhog!

on related note, can I remove cdrom and cdrom0 as well? I don't have any optical drives hooked up.

[Snowhog]

Re: Need to remount my SD Card - I think - need advice

You're welcome.

on related note, can I remove cdrom and cdrom0 as well? I don't have any optical drives hooked up.

Those are there by default. The do no harm. Leave them.