On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> I suspect I need to add it to fstab and specify somehow that it is to be
> mounted read-write. In the process, I'd like to name it something other
> than mmcblk0p1. I read man fstab, but couldn't figure out exactly how to
> do this. Or maybe fstab is not the way to fix the problem.

John,

   Create a mount point for it; e.g., /mnt/tinycard/. Then, as root, tail and
follow /var/log/messages (tail -f /var/log/messages) and insert the card and
adapter in a USB port. You'll see the name of the device assigned to that
port; e.g., sdb1.

   Then, in /etc/fstab create a line for it to be mounted. Here I have
several external USB devices that I mount as needed:

/dev/sdb         /mnt/thumb       vfat        noauto,users,rw  0   0
/dev/sdc         /mnt/flashdrive  vfat        noauto,users,rw  0   0
/dev/sdb1        /mnt/zip         vfat        noauto,users,rw  0   0

   Now, when you insert your SD card you can type 'mount /mnt/tinycard' and
it should be there.

   In my case, the problem is remembering which device is associated with
which mount point. :-)

Rich
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