On 02/02/2019 11:22, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 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!

Sorry. I seem to have got my threads screwed up!!
Looking back, it seems to be Martin Gregory that wrote it.
How it got attributed to you, I don't know.
Likewise, how it got into this thread (Re: Connecting to an iPad), I
don't know either.

Sorry again for the wrong attribution.

>
>> 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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