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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 USB drive (128 GB claimed) and want to test its…
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How can I completely erase all data on a (micro) SD card?

I just got a micro sd card that I plan on using with the Raspberry Pi. I used the KDE partition manager to delete the original partition on the card and to write a new 12GiB ext4 partition. After doing this, the card still says that 6% of it, 30.02…
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What are the pros and cons of installing and running Ubuntu from a microSD card?

I have a laptop with a spare microSD card. I am planning to install Ubuntu 16.04 on that card and use it alongside Windows. What are the pros and cons of running Ubuntu from a SD card? I don't think there are any pros apart from not having to…
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Unable to access 64gb volume - Ubuntu 14.04

I'm unable to mount Sandisk 64GB SDXC card. This error shown while connecting using my phone. I tried this, this and this links, but unable to find any solution. I've tried the below commands to install the exfat, sudo add-apt-repository…
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Can a "read-only" µSD card be salvaged?

A µSD card that was in a security camera suddenly stopped recording: Much of the data is gone (not a problem). The data that is still there is correct and readable. The card now always mounts as read-only, (on Chromebook, Windows, and Ubuntu). I…
Ray Butterworth
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Mobile phone storage device not recognized by Ubuntu

I have a mobile phone about two years old. When I first bought this phone, the internal micro SD card was recognized without the slightest problem. All I had to do was to connect the phone using a USB cable and select Mass Storage in the phone from…
Masroor
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How to format an external 64GB SD card (exfat) using command line?

I have an microSD card with 64GB capacity which has exFAT file system. If I insert it to my card reader, it is mounted automatically. But I am looking for a command to format the card. I installed exfat-fuse and exfat-utils, but could not find…
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How to Install Ubuntu on MicroSD

I bought MicroSD SanDisk PRO V30 A2 128 GB to which I would like to install Ubuntu 18.04 (is it possible to install linux on it?) Currently I have Ubuntu 18.04 on a USB (SanDisk 32GB). I also have Windows 10 on the eMMC drive (only 32GB) So now,…
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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 && cd /media/micro, the commands work and shows the…
Aaron Possien
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"fsck exited with status code 4" after choosing to boot Ubuntu

When I turn on my computer, it goes into the Ubuntu interface and asks me what I want to boot into: Ubuntu Advanced system options for ubuntu Windows boot manager (on /dev/sda1) System setup When I boot into the “Ubuntu” option, it just shows a…
Daniel Cunha
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micro SD card not working in Ubuntu?

I am trying to format a micro SD card from Ubuntu to use it for flashing ROMs to my tablet. When I get an adapter ( I tried lots ) from micro SD to SD and plug it into my SD slot the card shows up, but when I click on it in Nautilus I get the…
Mihail Mihov
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Rescue data from corupted FAT32 micro SD card

I used it on android and it just stopped working. I want to extract data before I format it. Here's the output of sudo dosfsck -w -r -l -a -v -t /dev/mmcblk0p1: fsck.fat 3.0.26 (2014-03-07) fsck.fat 3.0.26 (2014-03-07) Checking we can access the…
Dusan Milosevic
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How to enlarge a partition on an micro-sd card after burning an ubuntu image for an ARM- Board

got a problem, that a burned image of ubuntu on a micro-sd card for an arm-Board doesn't fit the whole space on the card and doesn't leave enough space for dist-upgrade. Repartitioning on-the-fly isn't possible as well, so I am a bit confused. How…
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SD Card Slot not recognized 14.04

I hope somone can help me out. I tried some solutions but nothing has fixed my problems. My SD Card Slot is not recognized by Ubuntu. It also doesnt listed as a storage. I dont know how i should fix this problem, because i am a newbie in the Linux…
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Unable to Mount 128GB Micro SDXC Storage Card

Previously, I was able to read from and write to my 128GB Micro SDXC storage card, which is always removed from my computer correctly (i.e. using the "eject" option)... It is also removed from my cell phone correctly, because I switch my cell phone…
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