On 02/02/2019 11:17, Chris Elvidge wrote:
> On 02/02/2019 06:58, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> Since, on an RPi, /dev/mmcblk0p1 is similar (the same?) as the name of
>> its boot disk (and that's a FAT32 partition) and the Linux filing system
>> is in an ext4 partition referred to as /dev/sda, it looks as if the
>> mmcblk* type of name may be used by all modern Linuxes for FAT32
>> partitions. When mounted, 'df' shows it under this name too.
>
> No.
>

Indeed. I never wrote that!

> On the RPi,
>
> mmcblk0 is always the (first) SD card in Linux, when in the SD card
> slot. mmcblk0p1, the first partition; mmcblk0p2 the second, etc.

yup.


>
> sda is the first USB connected drive. If you put an SD card into a USB
> SD card reader, it will come up as sd?
>
> AFAIK this SD card nomenclature also holds for any Linux-driven PC. Macs
> may vary, I don't know.
>
>
I think so


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